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
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In English
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