TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Maurice S.
TI  - Uncertain chances: science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature 
SN  - 9780199932412 (ebook) :
AV  - PS217.C46 L44 2012
U1  - 810.9384 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Chance in literature
KW  - Probability in literature
KW  - Skepticism in literature
KW  - Belief and doubt in literature
KW  - Pragmatism in literature
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797578.001.0001
ER  -