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Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance

Title
Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.
Author
Puskar, Jason Robert
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]

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Description
x, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 12-902
ISBN
  • 9780804775359 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804775354 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011011483
OCLC
YBP 2011011483
Author
Puskar, Jason Robert, author.
Title
Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-902
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