Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature /
The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and philosophical controversies while revo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.