TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodman,Nan
TI  - Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America 
SN  - 9780691227450
AV  - PS217.A25 
U1  - 810.9/355 21
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Accident law
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Accidents in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Blame in literature
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Legal stories, American
KW  - Negligence in literature
KW  - Responsibility in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adams, Henry
KW  - Armstrong, John
KW  - Banta, Martha
KW  - Bercovitch, Sacvan
KW  - Blumin, Stuart
KW  - Boorstin, Daniel
KW  - Cardozo, Benjamin
KW  - Cole, John
KW  - Cover, Robert
KW  - Crane, Stephen
KW  - Dane, Nathan
KW  - DeVoto, Bernard
KW  - Dimock, Wai Chee
KW  - Eisenberg, Melvin Aron
KW  - Fiss, Owen
KW  - Flanders, Henry
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Friedman, Lawrence
KW  - Gallagher, Catherine
KW  - Giedion, Siegfried
KW  - Goldberg, Reuben Lucius
KW  - Goodrich, Peter
KW  - Hacking, Ian
KW  - Harr, Jonathan
KW  - Heisenberg, Werner
KW  - Horwitz, Howard
KW  - Howells, William Dean
KW  - Jehlen, Myra
KW  - Kaplan, Justin
KW  - King, Stephen
KW  - Lauck, W. Jett
KW  - Levy, Leonard
KW  - Locke, John
KW  - Marx, Karl
KW  - Michelson, Bruce
KW  - Nelson, William
KW  - Oliver, Benjamin
KW  - Paine, Albert
KW  - Palmer v. Mulligan (1805)
KW  - Philbrick, Thomas
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
KW  - Seltzer, Mark
KW  - Stratton, George M
KW  - Tichii, Cecelia
KW  - Walce, James
KW  - Weiner, Philip P
KW  - Weisberg, Richard
KW  - Whiting, Frank
KW  - common law and custom
KW  - contracts
KW  - property law
KW  - responsibility
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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. In exciting tales of the actions of "good Samaritans" or of sea, steamboat, or railroad accidents, features of risk that might otherwise escape our attention--such as the suddenness of impact, the encounter between strangers, and the debates over blame and responsibility--were reconstructed in a manner that revealed both imagined and actual solutions to one of the most difficult philosophical and social conflicts in the nineteenth-century United States. Through literary and legal stories of accidents, Goodman suggests, we learn a great deal about what Americans thought about blame, injury, and individual responsibility in one of the most formative periods of our history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227450?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227450
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