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Uncertain chances [[electronic resource] ] : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee
| Uncertain chances [[electronic resource] ] : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee |
| Autore | Lee Maurice S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Chance in literature Probability in literature Skepticism in literature Belief and doubt in literature Pragmatism in literature Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Christianity and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
0-19-020853-8
0-19-998581-2 1-283-42737-0 0-19-979767-6 9786613427373 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Probably Poe; Method-If Method There Is; Vast Individual Error; Things External to the Game; 2. Moby-Dick and the Opposite of Providence; The Cause of the Hunt; The Indifferent Sword of Chance; At a Venture; 3. Doubting If Doubt Itself Be Doubting: After Moby-Dick; Judge ye, then, ye Judicious; Pierre and Pragmatism; "Bartleby" and Buridan's Ass; 4. Douglass's Long Run; Providence and Improvidence; Balancing Probabilities; Give Them a Chance!; Reconstructing Black Pragmatism; 5. Roughly Thoreau; Axes and Knives; Errors and Averages
Fish and GamesAn Unfinished Life of Science; Summing Up; 6. Dickinson's Precarious Steps, Surprising Leaps, and Bounds; Romantic Embarrassments; Chances for Heaven; Precarious Gaits; Having an Experience; Coda: Lost Causes and the Civil War; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792226303321 |
Lee Maurice S
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| New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee
| Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee |
| Autore | Lee Maurice S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/384 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Chance in literature Probability in literature Skepticism in literature Belief and doubt in literature Pragmatism in literature Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century Christianity and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
0-19-020853-8
0-19-998581-2 1-283-42737-0 0-19-979767-6 9786613427373 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Probably Poe; Method-If Method There Is; Vast Individual Error; Things External to the Game; 2. Moby-Dick and the Opposite of Providence; The Cause of the Hunt; The Indifferent Sword of Chance; At a Venture; 3. Doubting If Doubt Itself Be Doubting: After Moby-Dick; Judge ye, then, ye Judicious; Pierre and Pragmatism; "Bartleby" and Buridan's Ass; 4. Douglass's Long Run; Providence and Improvidence; Balancing Probabilities; Give Them a Chance!; Reconstructing Black Pragmatism; 5. Roughly Thoreau; Axes and Knives; Errors and Averages
Fish and GamesAn Unfinished Life of Science; Summing Up; 6. Dickinson's Precarious Steps, Surprising Leaps, and Bounds; Romantic Embarrassments; Chances for Heaven; Precarious Gaits; Having an Experience; Coda: Lost Causes and the Civil War; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966047503321 |
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Lee Maurice S
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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