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

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 273 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-266) and index.
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.
Summary	Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and science.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
	Moral conditions in literature.
	Moral conditions in literature.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: DeWitt, Anne. Moral athority, men of science, and the Victorian novel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107036178 (DLC) 2013022558 (OCoLC)851642756
ISBN	9781461936480 (electronic book)
	1461936489 (electronic book)
	9781139566384 (electronic book)
	1139566385 (electronic book)
	9781107036178 (hardback)
	1107036178 (hardback)
	9781107247963
	1107247969

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

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