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

by Jason Puskar (Author)

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 Biography

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