Mechanism and the Novel: Science in the Narrative Process

ISBN: 9780521108966 出版年：1993 页码：213 Martha A Turner Cambridge University Press

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.