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Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel(Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu 84) H 290
DeWitt, Anne
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発行年月 |
2013年07月 |
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出版国 |
アメリカ合衆国 |
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言語 |
英語 |
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媒体 |
冊子 |
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装丁 |
hardcover |
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ページ数/巻数 |
290 p. |
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ジャンル |
洋書/人文科学/文学/イギリス文学 |
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ISBN |
9781107036178 |
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商品コード |
1012171275 |
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新刊案内掲載月 |
2013年05月 |
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商品URL
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内容
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.