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  1. Accident society
    fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    anga888.p987
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    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
    40A2095
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  2. Accident society
    fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0804775354; 0804778450; 9780804778459
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Geschichte; American fiction; American fiction; Chance in literature; Realism in literature; Literature and society; Literature and society; Zufall <Motiv>; Unfall <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    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

  3. Accident society
    fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
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