{"product_id":"miserys-mathematics-9780415968072","title":"Miserys Mathematics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates this appeal to 'reality' in the analogies antebellum writers drew between their experience of bereavement, and the experiences of uncertainty and disillusionment, that followed the revolutions in science, the winding down of creedal systems and the economic instability typifying the pre-Civil War era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \"Misery’s Mathematics\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: \"The Laws of our Learning\": Emerson’s Grief and the Geological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinciples of Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville’s Piazza Tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402162643287,"sku":"9780415968072","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/miserys-mathematics-9780415968072","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}