Mechanism and Mysticism
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.
Dreiser was raised in a household dominated by the fanatical Catholic faith of his ...
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.
Dreiser was raised in a household dominated by the fanatical Catholic faith of his ...
