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999			_c545899 _d545899
020			_a9781316600948
082			_a823.809355 _bDEW
100			_aDeWitt, Anne
245			_a Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2013
300			_a ix, 273 pages _b24cm
520			_aHow 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.
650			_a English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
942			_cBK