TY - BOOK AU - DeWitt,Anne TI - Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novelAnne DeWitt T2 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture SN - 9781461936480 AV - PR868 .M673 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and science KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Literature and society KW - Moral conditions in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=604611&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -