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Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel

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 sc...

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第一著者: DeWitt, Anne
フォーマット: Printed Book
出版事項: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
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要約: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.
物理的記述:ix, 273 pages 24cm
ISBN:9781316600948