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.