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04379aam a2200577 i 4500 001 195ABB9E253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 220426t20232023pau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022017535 020 $a 1512823406 020 $a 9781512823400 035 $a (OCoLC)1320821605 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d VTU $d UIU $d BDX $d UKMGB $d KUK $d XII $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR830.P53 $b L44 2023 082 00 $a 823/.00924 $2 23/eng/20220525 100 1 $a Lee, Yoon Sun, $e author. 245 14 $a The natural laws of plot : $b how things happen in realist novels / $c Yoon Sun Lee. 250 $a 1st edition. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 258 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Alembics: Penn studies in literature and science 520 $a "Why do we distinguish between plot and setting? This book argues that we should not: a novel's plot relies minutely on the characteristics that are attributed to an outstretched physical world. Bodies behave according to laws that are built into worlds by plot. But such laws do not originate solely in an author's invention. Connecting the history of the novel to the history of science, this book argues that, in the novel from Defoe to Austen and Scott, plot explored alongside natural philosophy the idea of a unified and regular physical world. How do bodies move, stop, or combine? How do things exert force or resist it, decay or combine with each other? How are natural kinds organized? How can experiences reveal something about the order of the world? Where do human wishing and action belong in it? In these novels, plot does not occur exclusively at the scale of human aims or choices. Indeed, plot comes to be suspicious of subjectivity. It is often more interested in events and non-human forces that operate at various scales. It takes up causes and consequences that occur independently of anyone's desire. Unlike many studies of plot, then, this book does not consider plot as a shape, line, or arc. In a novel, plot cannot be disentangled from the concrete steps through which an action unfolds and the underlying structures that allow or do not allow it to succeed. Plot is immersive and powerful because it satisfies our wish to know how things happen in a coherent, objective and possibly real world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Plot, history, and totality in Zadie Smith's White teeth. $t Matter, motion, and the physical world of the novel -- $t Defoe's outstretched world -- $t Place, type, and order plot as natural history -- $t Tracing change and testing substances intimate objectivity -- $t Molecular possibility in Austen's plots -- $t Quixotism, plot, and the emergence of mechanical objectivity -- $t Historical vertigo and the laws of animal motion -- $g Epilogue. $t Plot, history, and totality in Zadie Smith's White teeth. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) 650 0 $a Natural history $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Objectivity. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Objectivity in literature. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Literature and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000093 650 7 $a Natural history $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034300 650 7 $a Objectivity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01042815 650 7 $a Objectivity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01042817 650 7 $a Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067227 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Lee, Yoon Sun. $t Natural laws of plot. $d Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] $z 9781512823417 $w (OCoLC)1323251993 830 0 $a Alembics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=195ABB9E253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search