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Accident society fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance /

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Main Author: Puskar, Jason Robert
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.

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