Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / / Jason Puskar.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 269 p. |
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Table of 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.