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Author:

Lee, Maurice S.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 239 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Chance in literature.
Probability in literature.
Skepticism in literature.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Pragmatism in literature.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
Literature and science--United States--History--19th century.
Christianity and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Probably Poe -- Moby-Dick and the opposite of providence -- Doubting if doubt itself be doubting: after Moby-Dick -- Douglass's long run -- Roughly Thoreau -- Dickinson's precarious steps, surprising leaps, and bounds.

ISBN:

0199797579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199797578 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)700468415

LCCN:

2011002599

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)