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Author:

De Witt, Anne.

Title:

Moral authority, men of Science, and the Victorian novel / Anne De Witt.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 84

ISBN:

1107036178 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107036178 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)851642756

LCCN:

2013022558

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)