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Author Puskar, Jason Robert.

Title Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 269 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Arguing that language and literature actively produced chance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by categorising injuries and losses as innocent of design, this book reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended on the literary production of chance.
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chance in literature.
Chance in literature.
Realism 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.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Puskar, Jason Robert. Accident society. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011011483
ISBN 9780804778459 (electronic book)
0804778450 (electronic book)
9780804775359 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804775354