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

Underwriting the Accident shows how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels taught Americans to classify a wide range of modern injuries as blameless accidents, which in turn became a powerful rationale for new and more interdependent modes of social organization.

Author: Jason Puskar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/11/2012
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780804775359

About the Author
Jason Puskar is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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