Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature /

Misery's Mathematics reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers - including Emerson, Warner, Melville and Hawthorn - to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain,...

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Acceso en línea:Electronic book from EBSCO
Autor principal: Balaam, Peter, 1963-
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado:New York : Routledge, 2009.
Colección:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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