Improbability, chance, and the nineteenth-century realist novel Grener, Adam 1981- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. ohu 2020 2020 monographic eng print x, 198 pages ; 24 cm "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"-- 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. Adam Grener. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. English fiction 19th century History and criticism Probability in literature Chance in literature Realism in literature Chance in literature English fiction Probability in literature Realism in literature 1800-1899 fast PR861 .G74 2020 823/.80936 9780814214428 0814214428 9780814278093 0814278094 2020000043 pda,print OU/DLC 200211 20250318222102.8 in00004352054 eng