Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel

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

Author/creator	DeWitt, Anne
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description	ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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.

Series	Cambridge 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 note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-266) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013022558
ISBN	9781107036178 (hardback : alk. paper)

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