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Author Zanine, Louis J

Title Mechanism and Mysticism : the Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser / Louis J. Zanine
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource : 9 illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Impact of Evolutionary Thought -- 2. The Evolutionary Universe in Fiction -- 3. The Lure of Mechanistic Science -- 4. Science and the Supernatural -- 5. Science as a Religious Quest -- 6. From Mechanism to Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary 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 as a mystic pantheist
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Knowledge -- Science
SUBJECT Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 fast
Subject Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Science in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature and science
Science
Science in literature
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512809121
1512809128