Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel / Anne DeWitt.

Author/creator DeWitt, Anne
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionix, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

SeriesCambridge studies in Nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 84
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 246-266) and index.
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LCCN 2013022558
ISBN9781107036178 (hardback : alk. paper)

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