01760nam a2200373 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040002100152050002400173082001700197100002000214245014100234260005900375300003400434504005100468520027500519588004700794650006200841650002600903650003100929650003000960650003600990650003001026650006601056650007101122651005201193776003301245856009101278999001701369EDZ0000056401StDuBDS20150804193949.0m||||||||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120302s2012    nyu    fo|    001 0 eng d  a9780199932412 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDScStDuBDS 0aPS217.C46bL44 201204a810.93842231 aLee, Maurice S.10aUncertain chancesh[electronic resource] :bscience, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature /cMaurice S. Lee.  aNew York ;aOxford :bOxford University Press,cc2012.  a1 online resource (x, 239 p.)  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.8 aMaurice 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.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aAmerican literaturey19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aChance in literature. 0aProbability in literature. 0aSkepticism in literature. 0aBelief and doubt in literature. 0aPragmatism in literature. 0aLiterature and sciencezUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aChristianity and literaturezUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aUnited StatesxIntellectual lifey19th century.08iPrint versionz9780199797578403Oxford scholarship onlineuhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797578.001.0001  c38670d38670