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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