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Mechanism in the novel: science in the narrative process
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ISBN: 0521443393 0521108969 0511553765 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Abstract

Martha Turner's 1993 book examines the relationship between British fiction and the tradition of mechanistic science derived from Isaac Newton, and provides a bridge between the mechanical philosophy of the eighteenth century and present-day habits of thought. Tracing the evolution of the concept of mechanism among science writers and novelists of the past 200 years, it shows how the pre-mechanistic world of Pride and Prejudice and the relatively unproblematic empiricism of The Bride of Lammermoor were succeeded by the quandaries of Bleak House, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and The Egoist, and how alternatives to the mechanistic tradition were worked out in The Secret Agent and Women in Love. Analysis of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives identifies features of the tradition which still survive.


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Configurations : a journal of literature, science, and technology
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ISSN: 10631801 10806520 Year: 1993 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press

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