Mechanism and the Novel

Science in the Narrative Process

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Hardcover | 8 November 1993

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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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Introduction
The concept of mechanism
The Aristotelian logic of settlement in Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor: Empiricism, mechanism, imagination
Cosmology and chaos in Dickens's Bleak House
Scientific humanism and the comic spirit: From The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to The Egoist
Old mindsets and new world-music in Conrad's The Secret Agent
Women in Love: Beyond fulfilment
The mechanistic legacy: Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives
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Mechanism and the Novel

Science in the Narrative Process

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Industry Reviews

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