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Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.
LIBRA PS374.C39 P87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puskar, Jason Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- 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.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804775359
- 0804775354
- OCLC:
- 710045048
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