Anne DeWitt. 2016. Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel Cambridge University Press.
Anne DeWitt, lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University, examines how nineteenth-century novelists responded to the alignment of scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavour to secure cultural authority for scientific disciplines. Draws on works of natural theology, popular lectures, and periodicals to delineate changes in the status of science.
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