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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 January 2010
      09 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511553769
      9780521443395
      9780521108966
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553769
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.444kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History of Science, English Literature 1900-1945, General Science
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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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    "Turner's book is enjoyable to read, and offers many useful, thought-provoking readings of texts..." Victorian Studies

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