Accident society :
Puskar, Jason Robert
Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012. - x, 267 p.
Introduction : writing the accident -- The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells -- Aimless battles : Stephen Crane -- Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce and Anna Katharine Green -- The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton and Crystal Eastman -- Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser and James Cain.
9780804775359
American fiction--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Chance in literature.
Realism in literature.
Literature and society--History
Literature and society--History
813.009 / PUS/A
Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012. - x, 267 p.
Introduction : writing the accident -- The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells -- Aimless battles : Stephen Crane -- Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce and Anna Katharine Green -- The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton and Crystal Eastman -- Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser and James Cain.
9780804775359
American fiction--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Chance in literature.
Realism in literature.
Literature and society--History
Literature and society--History
813.009 / PUS/A