03962nam 22007332 450 991077998870332120160225105930.01-107-24177-41-139-89165-01-316-60094-71-107-25128-11-107-24796-91-139-56638-51-107-24879-51-107-25045-51-107-24962-7(CKB)2550000001108172(EBL)1303720(OCoLC)854975220(SSID)ssj0000950453(PQKBManifestationID)12335495(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950453(PQKBWorkID)11007339(PQKB)10814030(UkCbUP)CR9781139566384(MiAaPQ)EBC1303720(Au-PeEL)EBL1303720(CaPaEBR)ebr10740465(CaONFJC)MIL508515(EXLCZ)99255000000110817220120725d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMoral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel /Anne DeWitt[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;84Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).1-107-03617-8 1-299-77264-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Nineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline. Anne DeWitt examines how novelists from Elizabeth Gaskell to H. G. Wells responded to this alignment. Revising the widespread assumption that Victorian science and literature were part of one culture, she argues that the professionalization of science prompted novelists to deny that science offered widely accessible moral benefits. Instead, they represented the narrow aspirations of the professional as morally detrimental while they asserted that moral concerns were the novel's own domain of professional expertise. This book draws on works of natural theology, popular lectures, and debates from the pages of periodicals to delineate changes in the status of science and to show how both familiar and neglected works of Victorian fiction sought to redefine the relationship between science and the novel.Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;84.Moral Authority, Men of Science, & the Victorian NovelEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMoral conditions in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and scienceHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryMoral conditions in literature.823/.809355DeWitt Anne1480128UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910779988703321Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel3696610UNINA