Title The phantom of chance : from fortune to randomness in seventeenth-century French literature / John D. Lyons.

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 211 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
	Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
Contents	1. Fortune, Mistress of Events: Corneille and the Poetics of Tragedy -- 2. God in a World of Chance: Pascal's Pensees and Provincial Letters -- 3. From Chance Events to Implausible Actions: Lafayette and the Novel -- 4. The God of Suspense: Bossuet's Providential History and Racine's Athalie -- 5. An Accidental World: La Bruyere's Characters.
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Subject	Fortune in literature.
	Fortune in literature.
	Chance in literature.
	Chance in literature.
Chronological Term	1600-1699
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Lyons, John D., 1946- Phantom of chance. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012 9780748645152 (DLC) 2011535930 (OCoLC)751795933
ISBN	9780748645169 (electronic book)
	0748645160 (electronic book)
	9780748645152
	0748645152