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 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO A Clear Showing THE PROBLEM OF FAULT IN JAMES FENIMORE COOPER'S THE PIONEERS
- CHAPTER THREE Negligence before the Mast SHIP COLLISIONS AND THE NAUTICAL LITERATURE OF THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER FOUR "Nobody to Blame" STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN TWAIN
- CHAPTER FIVE The Law of the Good Samaritan CROSS-RACIAL RESCUE IN STEPHEN CRANE AND CHARLES CHESNUTT
- CHAPTER SIX Stop, Look, and Listen THE SIGNS AND SIGNALS OF THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
- CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue
- Notes
- Index