Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel / Anne DeWitt.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)Content type:- text
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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Moral conditions in literature
- Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature et sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Conditions morales dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English fiction
- Literature and science
- Literature and society
- Moral conditions in literature
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Roman
- Wissenschaft Motiv
- 1800-1899
- 823.809 22
- PR868.S34 D4 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-266) and index.
The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalism -- Moral uses, narrative effects: natural history in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell -- "The actual sky is a horror": Thomas Hardy and the problems of scientific thinking -- "The moral influence of those cruelties": the vivisection debate, antivivisection fiction, and the status of Victorian science -- Science, aestheticism, and the literary career of H.G. Wells.
Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.
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