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Misery's Mathematics
Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key...
Published January 25th 2009 by Routledge