Mechanism and mysticism the influence of science on the thought and work of Theodore Dreiser /
In Mechanism and Mysticism, Louis J. Zanine provides the first full-length study of Theodore Dreiser's interest in modern scientific research and of the impact of scientific ideas on the thought and work of a writer who would gain fame as a deterministic naturalist, but who would end his life a...
| Main Author: | Zanine, Louis J. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1993]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- The impact of evolutionary thought
- The evolutionary universe in fiction
- The lure of mechanistic science
- Science and the supernatural
- Science as a religious quest
- From mechanism to mysticism.