Martha A. Turner

Mechanism and the Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

An important 1993 study of the relationship between British fiction and the tradition of mechanistic science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780521443395
• ISBN-10: 0521443393
• Artikelnr.: 35682020

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The concept of mechanism
2. The Aristotelian logic of settlement in Austen's Pride and Prejudice
3. Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor: empiricism, mechanism, imagination
4. Cosmology and chaos in Dickens's Bleak House
5. Scientific humanism and the comic spirit: from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to The Egoist
6. Old mindsets and new world-music in Conrad's The Secret Agent
7. Women in Love: beyond fulfilment
8. The mechanistic legacy: Lessing's Canopus in Argos: archives.