Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel

Moral authority, men of science, and the Victorian novel

The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalismMoral 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 tho...

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1. Verfasser: DeWitt, Anne (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 84
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English fiction > History and criticism > Literature and science > History > Literature and society > Moral conditions in literature > Science in literature > England > Roman > Wissenschaftler > Geistesgeschichte 1837-1901 > Englisch > Wissenschaft > Geschichte 1837-1901
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Zusammenfassung:The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalismMoral 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.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 246-266
Beschreibung:ix, 273 Seiten
ISBN:1107036178
1-107-03617-8
9781107036178
978-1-107-03617-8