Misery's Mathematics

Misery's Mathematics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781135884338
ISBN-13 : 1135884331
Rating : 4/5 (331 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Misery's Mathematics by : Peter Balaam

Download or read book Misery's Mathematics written by Peter Balaam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in innovative ways. These three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.


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