Accident society [electronic resource] : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.
Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: x, 269 pISBN:- 9780804775359 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804778459 (e-book)
- 813.009 22
- PS374.C39 P87 2012eb
eBooks
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.
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