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portada Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2012
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780804775359
Edition No.
1
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Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

Jason Puskar (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance - Jason Puskar

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Synopsis "Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance "

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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