Author: Jason Puskar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
Accident Society
Author: Jason Puskar
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
The Ten Biggest Mistakes that Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case
Author: Christopher M. Davis
Publisher: Davis Law Group, P.S.
ISBN: 1595711953
Category : Automobile insurance claims
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Publisher: Davis Law Group, P.S.
ISBN: 1595711953
Category : Automobile insurance claims
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Our Society Journal
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Category : Life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
National Safety Council Injury Facts
Author: National Safety Council
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879122829
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879122829
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Report of the Accident Relief Society ... 1851
Author: Accident Relief Society (LONDON)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Proceedings of the Second Annual Session, National Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions
Author: International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
Publisher:
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Insurance Department
Publisher:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Insurance to the New York Legislature
Author: New York (State). Insurance Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insurance Department, State of New York
Author: New York (State). Insurance Department
Publisher:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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