Accident society
Subtitle: fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance
By: Jason Puskar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780804775359
Subjects: Realism in literature; Chance in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; History and criticism; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : writing the accident; title: The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells; title: Aimless battles : Stephen Crane; title: Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce and Anna Katharine Green; title: The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton and Crystal Eastman; title: Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser and James Cain.