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Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Lee, Maurice S. (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States)
Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Lee, Maurice S. (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States)
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.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 19, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199797578 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 242 × 22 mm · 543 g |
| Language | English |