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Uncertain chances [electronic resource] : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / Maurice S. Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780199932412 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 810.9384 23
LOC classification:
  • PS217.C46 L44 2012
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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