Title Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) 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 Summary Arguing that language and literature actively produced chance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by categorising injuries and losses as innocent of design, this book reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended on the literary production of chance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject 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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General American fiction Chance in literature Literature and society Realism in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011011483 ISBN 9780804778459 0804778450

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