Accident Society

Name: Accident Society
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804775359
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Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

Autor: Jason Puskar

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and ea...

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Autor

Jason Puskar

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

268

EAN

9780804775359

ISBN

0804775354

Enbook ID

04719095

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

499

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 25

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This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents." During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. By producing chance, novels by William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Anna Katharine Green, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and James Cain documented and helped establish new modes of collective interdependence. Chance here is connected not with the competitive individualism of the Gilded Age, but with important progressive and social democratic reforms, including developments in insurance, which had long employed accident narratives to shape its own "mutual society." "Accident Society" reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended--and continues to depend--on the literary production of chance.

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