Accident society fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance - Puskar, Jason Robert; ebrary, Inc. (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books