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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774135704 Title: Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance Author: Jason Puskar Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012 ISBN/ISSN: 9780804775359 0804775354 OCLC:774135704

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

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

Author:	Jason Puskar
Publisher:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Underwriting the Accident shows how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels taught Americans to classify a wide range of modern injuries as blameless accidents, which in turn became a Read more...
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Subjects	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Chance in literature. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Jason Puskar Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780804775359 0804775354
OCLC Number:	774135704
Description:	x, 269 s. : illustrations
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.
Responsibility:	Jason Puskar

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