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02268aam a2200433 i 4500 001 79A7CA4C1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 200211s2020 ohu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020000043 020 $a 0814214428 020 $a 9780814214428 035 $a (OCoLC)1142757344 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR861 $b .G74 2020 082 00 $a 823/.80936 $2 23 100 1 $a Grener, Adam, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Improbability, chance, and the nineteenth-century realist novel / $c Adam Grener. 264 1 $a Columbus : $b The Ohio State University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 198 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Probability, particularity, and the uncertain futures of Austen's very minor characters -- Reading chance, encountering otherness in Scott -- Dickensian coincidence, cognitive mapping, and the Victorian metropolis -- Odds, statistics, and chance: problems of causality in the Trollopean bildungsroman -- Chance, historicism, Hardy -- Coda: The difference of scale. 520 $a "Reading chance as a tension between randomness and order, this book shows how novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy resist the demands of probabilistic representation to develop strategies for capturing cultural particularity and historical transformation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Probability in literature. 650 0 $a Chance in literature. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 7 $a Chance in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852035 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Probability in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896126 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403012844.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020431.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=79A7CA4C1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search