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

Autor Nan Goodman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 1999
When someone gets hurt in an accident we reflexively ask a set of questions which ultimately comes down to who was blameworthy? Yet early nineteenth-century Americans were entirely, and to the modern reader, astonishingly, uninterested in this line of reasoning. Their concern was whether an accident had happened and not why. Nan Goodman takes this transformation in legal and popular thought about the nature of accidents as a starting point for a broad inquiry into changing conceptions of individual agency-and ultimately of self-in industrializing America. Goodman looks to both conventional historical sources and the literary depiction of accidents in the work of Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Charles Chesnutt, and others to explain the new ways that Americans began to make sense of the unplanned.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415926843
ISBN-10: 041592684X
Pagini: 214
Ilustrații: 4 color images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A Clear Showing; Chapter 3 Negligence before the Mast; Chapter 4 “Nobody to Blame”; Chapter 5 The Law of the Good Samaritan; Chapter 6 Stop, Look, and Listen; Chapter 7 Epilogue;