Shifting the blame : literature, law, and the theory of accidents in nineteenth-century America

Shifting the blame : literature, law, and the theory of accidents in nineteenth-century America /

Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, Nan Goodman investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. By looking at accidents and accident law in the industri...

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Main Author: Goodman, Nan, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Accidents in literature.
Accident law > United States > History > 19th century.
Legal stories, American > History and criticism.
Law and literature > History > 19th century.
Negligence in literature.
Responsibility in literature.
Blame in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Accident law
Accidents in literature
American literature
Blame in literature
Law and literature
Legal stories, American
Negligence in literature
Responsibility in literature
Verkehrsunfall
Verantwortung
Verantwortlichkeit
Recht
Literatur
Geschichte 1800-1900.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • A clear showing: The problem of fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers
  • Negligence before the mast: ship collisions and the nautical literature of the mid-nineteenth century
  • "Nobody to blame": Steamboat accidents and responsibility in Twain
  • The law of the good samaritan: Cross-racial rescue in Stephen Crane and Charles Chesnutt
  • Stop, Look, and Listen: the signs and signals of the railroad accident.

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