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 / / Nan Goodman.

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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Superior document:	Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:	Goodman, Nan,
Place / Publishing House:	Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1998
Year of Publication:	2022
Language:	English
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227450?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227450 Cover
Physical Description:	1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 halftones
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