Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-century Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0404160468
- ISBN-13
- 9780404160463
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 307
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- AMS Press
- Author
- Modern Language Association of America
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