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020 _a9780199797578
_q(hardcover ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a0199797579
_q(hardcover ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a9780199985814
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035 _a(OCoLC)700468415
_z(OCoLC)756279174
050 0 0 _aPS217.C46
_bL44 2012
082 0 0 _a810.9/384
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100 1 _aLee, Maurice S.
245 1 0 _aUncertain chances :
_bscience, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature /
_cMaurice S. Lee.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2012.
300 _ax, 239 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aProbably 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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 revolutionizing the sciences as probabilistic methods spread from mathematics, economics, and sociology to physics and evolutionary biology. Chance also became more visible in everyday life, as Americans attempted to control its power through weather forecasting, insurance policies, military strategy, and financial dealings. Uncertain Chances shows how the rise of chance shaped the way nineteenth-century American writers confronted questions of doubt and belief. Poe's detective fiction critiques probabilistic methods; Melville's works struggle to vindicate moral action under conditions of chance; Douglass and other African American authors fight against statistical racism; Thoreau learns to appreciate the play between nature's randomness and order; and Dickinson works faithfully to render poetically the affective experience of chance--surprise. These and other nineteenth-century writers dramatize the inescapable dangers and wonderful possibilities of chance. Their writings even help to navigate extremes that remain with us today--fundamentalism and relativism, determinism and chaos, terrorism and risk-management, the rational confidence of the Enlightenment and the debilitating doubts of modernity."--Jacket.
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.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and science
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aChristianity and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aAmerican literature.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00807113
650 7 _aBelief and doubt in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00830132
650 7 _aChance in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00852035
650 7 _aChristianity and literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00859681
650 7 _aIntellectual life.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650 7 _aLiterature and science.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01000093
650 7 _aPragmatism in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01074584
650 7 _aProbability in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01896126
650 7 _aSkepticism in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01119945
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650 0 7 _aGlaube (Motiv)
_0(DE-588)4157483-7
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aLiteratur.
_0(DE-588)4035964-5
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aNaturwissenschaften.
_0(DE-588)4041421-8
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aSkeptizismus (Motiv)
_0(DE-588)4332735-7
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aWahrscheinlichkeit (Motiv)
_0(DE-588)4188955-1
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aZweifel (Motiv)
_0(DE-588)4298202-9
_2gnd
651 7 _aUSA.
_0(DE-588)4078704-7
_2gnd
650 0 7 _aGlaube (Motiv)
_0(DE-588c)4157483-7
_2swd
650 0 7 _aLiteratur.
_0(DE-588c)4035964-5
_2swd
650 0 7 _aNaturwissenschaften.
_0(DE-588c)4041421-8
_2swd
650 0 7 _aSkeptizismus (Motiv)
_0(DE-588c)4332735-7
_2swd
650 0 7 _aWahrscheinlichkeit (Motiv)
_0(DE-588c)4188955-1
_2swd
650 0 7 _aZweifel (Motiv)
_0(DE-588c)4298202-9
_2swd
651 7 _aUSA.
_0(DE-588c)4078704-7
_2swd
650 7 _aAmerikansk litteratur
_xhistoria
_y1800-talet.
_2sao
650 7 _aSkepticism i litteraturen.
_2sao
650 7 _aLitteratur och vetenskap
_xhistoria
_z
_y1800-talet.
_2sao
650 7 _aKristendom och litteratur
_xhistoria
_z
_y1800-talet.
_2sao
651 7 _a
_xintellektuellt liv
_xhistoria
_y1800-talet.
_2sao
648 7 _aGeschichte 1800-1900.
_2swd
648 4 _aGeschichte 1800-1900.
648 7 _a1800-1899
_2fast
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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