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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodman, Nan, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 industrializing society, Goodman shows how courts moved away from the doctrine of strict liability to a new notion of liability that emphasized fault and negligence. Shifting the Blame reveals the pervasive impact of this radically new theory of responsibility in understandings of industrial hazards, in manufacturing dangers, and in the stories that were told and retold about accidents.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780691227450

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