Improbability, chance, and the nineteenth-century realist novel

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1 See Paul Fyfe, By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015); Maurice Lee, Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013); J. Jeffrey Franklin, Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999).

2 Julia Jordan, Chance and the Modern British Novel: From Henry Green to Iris Murdoch (London: Continuum, 2010); Jason Puskar, Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2012).

3 See for instance Hilary P. Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008); Leland Monk, Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994).

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Jason Puskar

Jason Puskar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. He is the author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity and the Production of Chance (Stanford 2012), and his articles on chance, accident, and risk have appeared in journals including American Literary History, Daedalus, and English Language Notes.