| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics"; 1 "The Laws of Our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological Principles of Loss; 2 Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World; 3 Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's Piazza Tales; Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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American literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203504000 |
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0203504003 |
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