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961168
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b715538
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| Main Entry
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Turner, Martha A.
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| Title & Author
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Mechanism and the novel : : science in the narrative process /\ Martha A. Turner.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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1 online resource (xi, 199 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511553765
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: 9780511553769
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0521443393
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9780521108966
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9780521443395
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of mechanism -- 3. The Aristotelian logic of settlement in Austen's Pride and Prejudice -- 4. Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor: empiricism, mechanism, imagination -- 5. Cosmology and chaos in Dickens's Bleak House -- 6. Scientific humanism and the Comic Spirit: from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to The Egoist -- 7. Old mindsets and new world-music in Conrad's The Secret Agent -- 8. Women in Love: beyond fulfillment -- 9. The mechanistic legacy: Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives.
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| Abstract
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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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English fiction-- History and criticism.
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History.
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Mechanics in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History.
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Mechanics in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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English fiction.
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Literature and science.
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Littérature et sciences-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Mecanique dans la littérature anglaise.
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Mécanique-- dans la littérature anglaise.
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Mechanics in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Roman anglais-- Histoire et critique.
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Sciences-- Dans la littérature.
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Engels.
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Letterkunde.
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Mechanica.
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Wetenschap.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823.009/356
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| LC Classification
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PR830.S34T87 1993eb
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18.05bcl
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7,25ssgn
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