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008			120302s2012 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780199932412 (ebook) : _cNo price
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050		0	_aPS217.C46 _bL44 2012
082	0	4	_a810.9384 _223
100	1		_aLee, Maurice S.
245	1	0	_aUncertain chances _h[electronic resource] : _bscience, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / _cMaurice S. Lee.
260			_aNew York ; _aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _cc2012.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 239 p.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aChance in literature.
650		0	_aProbability in literature.
650		0	_aSkepticism in literature.
650		0	_aBelief and doubt in literature.
650		0	_aPragmatism in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and science _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aChristianity and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xIntellectual life _y19th century.
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780199797578
856	4	0	_3Oxford scholarship online _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797578.001.0001
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