Moral Authority Men Of Science And The Victorian Novel

Author : Anne DeWitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724515X
Total Pages : 291 pages
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Download or read book Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel written by Anne DeWitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-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.

Author : Anne De Witt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107247963
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Author : Anne DeWitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036178
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel written by Anne DeWitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

Author : Jessica Ann Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350278173
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus in the Victorian Novel written by Jessica Ann Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith-even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.

Author : Will Tattersdill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107144655
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press written by Will Tattersdill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317042344
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science written by John Holmes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.

Author : Sarah C. Alexander
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981882
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable written by Sarah C. Alexander and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spacesbetweenthe material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the "imponderable" helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669031
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kevin A. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.

Author : Amy M. King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492959
Total Pages : 317 pages
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Download or read book The Divine in the Commonplace written by Amy M. King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how natural theology features in both early Victorian natural histories and English provincial realist novels of the same period.

Author : Ian Duncan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194181
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Forms written by Ian Duncan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses—even as the two were separating into distinct domains. Duncan focuses on several crisis points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental instrument for managing the new set of divisions—between nature and history, individual and species, human and biological life—that replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul. The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with "the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel.