Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel
DeWitt, Anne
Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013 - ix, 273 pages 24cm
How did Victorian novelists including Eliot, Hardy and Wells respond to contemporary men of science who aligned scientific practice with moral excellence in an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline? Anne DeWitt argues that novelists came to reject this alignment, denying that science held widely accessible moral benefits.
9781316600948
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
823.809355 / DEW
Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013 - ix, 273 pages 24cm
How did Victorian novelists including Eliot, Hardy and Wells respond to contemporary men of science who aligned scientific practice with moral excellence in an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline? Anne DeWitt argues that novelists came to reject this alignment, denying that science held widely accessible moral benefits.
9781316600948
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
823.809355 / DEW