01760nam a2200373 a 4500 EDZ0000056401 StDuBDS 20150804193949.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120302s2012 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199932412 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS217.C46 L44 2012 810.9384 23 Lee, Maurice S. Uncertain chances [electronic resource] : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / Maurice S. Lee. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012. 1 online resource (x, 239 p.) 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. Description based on print version record. American literature 19th century History and criticism. Chance in literature. Probability in literature. Skepticism in literature. Belief and doubt in literature. Pragmatism in literature. Literature and science United States History 19th century. Christianity and literature United States History 19th century. United States Intellectual life 19th century. Print version 9780199797578 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797578.001.0001 38670 38670