Könyv Accident Society Jason Puskar

Accident Society

Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

Szerző: Jason Puskar
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
32 336 Ft
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and ea...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2011
oldal
268
EAN
9780804775359
ISBN
0804775354
Enbook ID
04719095
Súly
499
Méretek
152 x 229 x 25

Teljes leírás

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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