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Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novelAnne DeWitt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461936480
  • 9781139566384
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR868 .M673 2013
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Contents:
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.
Subject: Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.
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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.

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