Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel /

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Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeWitt, Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
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.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conditions morales dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Literature and science
Literature and society
Moral conditions in literature
Englisch
Roman
Wissenschaft > Motiv
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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