Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novelAnne DeWitt.
DeWitt, Anne.
Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novelAnne DeWitt. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages). - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture .
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781461936480 9781139566384
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and science--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Moral conditions in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR868 / .M673 2013
Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novelAnne DeWitt. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages). - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture .
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781461936480 9781139566384
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and science--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Moral conditions in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR868 / .M673 2013