Puskar, Jason Robert <br/><br/>
Accident society :  fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance 

 - Stanford, California :  Stanford University Press,  2012. 
 - x, 267 p. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804775359 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Chance in literature.<br/>Realism in literature.<br/>Literature and society--History<br/>Literature and society--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.009  / PUS/A