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Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature
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Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature

Author: Maurice S Lee
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Maurice S Lee
ISBN: 9780199797578 0199797579
OCLC Number: 700468415
Description: x, 239 p. ; 25 cm.
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 --
Coda: Lost causes and the Civil War.
Responsibility: Maurice S. Lee.
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<br>"[An] erudite...densely informative study." --The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin<p> Read more...

 
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