TY - BOOK AU - Puskar,Jason Robert TI - Accident society: fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance SN - 9780804775359 U1 - 813.009 PY - 2012/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Chance in literature KW - Realism in literature KW - Literature and society KW - History N1 - 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 ER -