Book contents
- Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel
- Series page
- Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalism
- Chapter 2 Moral uses, narrative effects: Natural history in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell
- Chapter 3 “The actual sky is a horror”: Thomas Hardy and the problems of scientific thinking
- Chapter 4 “The moral influence of those cruelties”: The vivisection debate, antivivisection fiction, and the status of Victorian science
- Chapter 5 Science, aestheticism, and the literary career of H. G. Wells
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel
- Series page
- Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The religion of science from natural theology to scientific naturalism
- Chapter 2 Moral uses, narrative effects: Natural history in the novels of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell
- Chapter 3 “The actual sky is a horror”: Thomas Hardy and the problems of scientific thinking
- Chapter 4 “The moral influence of those cruelties”: The vivisection debate, antivivisection fiction, and the status of Victorian science
- Chapter 5 Science, aestheticism, and the literary career of H. G. Wells
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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