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Author

Puskar, Jason Robert.

Title Accident society [electronic resource] : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance / Jason Puskar.

Imprint

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 269 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780804775359 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780804778459 (electronic bk.)