{"product_id":"accident-society-jason-puskar-9780804775359","title":"Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\" \u003ci\u003eAccident Society\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended--and continues to depend--on the literary production of chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Puskar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804775354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804775359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Jason Puskar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059764031743,"sku":"9780804775359","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4eea78df-6d5f-404c-9f62-fb55c58eed87.jpg?v=1685060193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/accident-society-jason-puskar-9780804775359","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}