Uncertain Chances. Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author	Lee, Maurice S.
Year	2012
Publisher	Oxford: OUP
Number of pages	304
ISBN	9780199797578
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Abstract

Publisher's Note (2012): 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.