LEADER 03962nam 22007332 450 001 9910779988703321 005 20160225105930.0 010 $a1-107-24177-4 010 $a1-139-89165-0 010 $a1-316-60094-7 010 $a1-107-25128-1 010 $a1-107-24796-9 010 $a1-139-56638-5 010 $a1-107-24879-5 010 $a1-107-25045-5 010 $a1-107-24962-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001108172 035 $a(EBL)1303720 035 $a(OCoLC)854975220 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950453 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12335495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950453 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11007339 035 $a(PQKB)10814030 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139566384 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1303720 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1303720 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740465 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508515 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001108172 100 $a20120725d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMoral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel /$fAnne DeWitt$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v84 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016). 311 $a1-107-03617-8 311 $a1-299-77264-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aNineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline. Anne DeWitt examines how novelists from Elizabeth Gaskell to H. G. Wells responded to this alignment. Revising the widespread assumption that Victorian science and literature were part of one culture, she argues that the professionalization of science prompted novelists to deny that science offered widely accessible moral benefits. Instead, they represented the narrow aspirations of the professional as morally detrimental while they asserted that moral concerns were the novel's own domain of professional expertise. This book draws on works of natural theology, popular lectures, and debates from the pages of periodicals to delineate changes in the status of science and to show how both familiar and neglected works of Victorian fiction sought to redefine the relationship between science and the novel. 410 0$aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v84. 517 3 $aMoral Authority, Men of Science, & the Victorian Novel 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMoral conditions in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aMoral conditions in literature. 676 $a823/.809355 700 $aDeWitt$b Anne$01480128 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779988703321 996 $aMoral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel$93696610 997 $aUNINA