Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel /
Anne DeWitt.
- Cambridge ; $a New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- 273 p.
- Cambridge studies in Nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 84 .
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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English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Literature and science--History--Great Britain--19th century. Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century. Moral conditions in literature.