Accident society fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance

Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.

Author/creator	Puskar, Jason Robert
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,
Description	x, 267 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	American fiction--19th century --History and criticism. American fiction--20th century --History and criticism. Chance in literature. Realism in literature. Literature and society--United States --History --19th century. Literature and society--United States --History --20th century.

Contents	Introduction : writing the accident -- The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells -- Aimless battles : Stephen Crane -- Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce and Anna Katharine Green -- The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton and Crystal Eastman -- Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser and James Cain.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011011483
ISBN	9780804775359 (cloth : alk. paper)

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