Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Mechanism and the NovelScience in the Narrative Process, pp. 195 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993