Shifting the Blame : Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America /

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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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Autor principal: Goodman, Nan, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Blame in literature.
Responsibility in literature.
Negligence in literature.
Law and literature > History > 19th century.
Legal stories, American > History and criticism.
Accident law > United States > History > 19th century.
Accidents in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Verkehrsunfall
Verantwortung
Verantwortlichkeit
Recht
Literatur
Legal stories, American.
Law and literature.
American literature.
Accident law.
Blâme dans la litterature.
Responsabilite dans la litterature.
Negligence (Droit) dans la litterature.
Droit et litterature > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Roman judiciaire americain > Histoire et critique.
Accidents > Droit > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Accidents dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
USA.
USA
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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