Puskar, Jason Robert.

Accident society fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / [electronic resource] : Jason Puskar. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012. - x, 269 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : writing the accident -- The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells -- Aimless battles : Stephen Crane -- Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce, Anna Katharine Green -- The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton, Crystal Eastman -- Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser, James Cain.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Chance in literature.
Realism in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

PS374.C39 / P87 2012

813.009