TY - BOOK AU - DeWitt, Anne TI - Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel SN - 9781316600948 U1 - 823.809355 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. N2 - 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. ER -