Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect

Alan Rauch's Useful Knowledge explores how the expansion of scientific information, popular education and print culture shaped nineteenth-century Britain. It connects the circulation of knowledge with Victorian debates about morality, religion and responsibility.

Rauch examines fiction by Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot and Jane Webb Loudon alongside the institutions that shared knowledge with a growing readership. This study brings together literary criticism, cultural history and the history of science.

Book details: Alan Rauch. Duke University Press, 2001. 2001 paperback edition. English paperback. 304 pages. ISBN 9780822326687.

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