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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Main Author: DeWitt, Anne
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
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