Maurice S. Lee

Uncertain Chances

Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780199985814
• ISBN-10: 0199985812
• Artikelnr.: 37257385

Autorenporträt

Maurice S. Lee is Associate Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One
Probably Poe
Chapter Two
Moby-Dick and the Opposite of Providence
Chapter Three
Doubting If Doubt Itself Be Doubting: After Moby-Dick
Chapter Four
Douglass' Long Run
Chapter Five
Roughly Thoreau
Chapter Six
Dickinson's Precarious Steps, Surprising Leaps, and Bounds
Coda
Lost Causes and the Civil War