Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance - Puskar, Jason Robert (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012)
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.
Keywords: American fiction -- History and criticism; American fiction -- History and criticism; Chance in literature; Realism in literature; Literature and society -- History; Literature and society -- History