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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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