Lee, Maurice S.
Uncertain chances science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / [electronic resource] : Maurice S. Lee. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (x, 239 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.
9780199932412 (ebook) : No price
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Chance in literature.
Probability in literature.
Skepticism in literature.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Pragmatism in literature.
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Christianity and literature--History--United States--19th century.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
PS217.C46 / L44 2012
810.9384
Uncertain chances science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / [electronic resource] : Maurice S. Lee. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (x, 239 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.
9780199932412 (ebook) : No price
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Chance in literature.
Probability in literature.
Skepticism in literature.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Pragmatism in literature.
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Christianity and literature--History--United States--19th century.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
PS217.C46 / L44 2012
810.9384