03645nam 2200697 a 450 991045719270332120200520144314.00-8047-7845-010.1515/9780804778459(CKB)2550000000057499(EBL)793292(OCoLC)767502196(SSID)ssj0000631608(PQKBManifestationID)12226562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631608(PQKBWorkID)10592144(PQKB)11753571(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127890(MiAaPQ)EBC793292(DE-B1597)564123(DE-B1597)9780804778459(Au-PeEL)EBL793292(CaPaEBR)ebr10505103(OCoLC)1178769582(EXLCZ)99255000000005749920110315d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAccident society[electronic resource] fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance /Jason PuskarStanford, California Stanford University Press20121 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7535-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : writing the accident -- The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells -- Aimless battles : Stephen Crane -- Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce, Anna Katharine Green -- The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton, Crystal Eastman -- Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser, James Cain.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.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismChance in literatureRealism in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Chance in literature.Realism in literature.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistory813.009Puskar Jason Robert1049858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457192703321Accident society2479188UNINA01545nam2 22003491i 450 UON0046540820231205105142.6520160301d1956 |0itac50 baitaIT|||| 1||||RosmundaMaria Stuarda ; La congiura de' Pazzi ; Don Garzia ; AgideVittorio Alfierinote a cura di G.R. CerielloMilanoRizzoli1956378 p.16 cm.001UON000660642001 Biblioteca Universale RizzoliDirettore responsabile Evaldo Violo1035-1038001UON003730072001 Don Garzia001UON003730082001 ˆLa ‰congiura de' Pazzi001UON003730102001 Maria Stuarda001UON004656572001 Agide001UON004656032001 Tutte le tragedieVittorio Alfieri210 MilanoRizzoli215 5 v.16 cm.3ITMilanoUONL000005852.6Letteratura drammatica italiana. 1748-181421ALFIERIVittorioUONV119549292812CERIELLOG.R.UONV230563RizzoliUONV245928650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00465408SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI ITA O.C ALF 14 c SI 16597 6 14 c Rosmunda149513Maria Stuarda ; La congiura de' Pazzi ; Don Garzia ; Agide1396721UNIOR