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

Name: Shifting the Blame Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780415926843

ISBN-10: 041592684X

ISBN-13: 9780415926843

Edition: 2000

Authors: Nan Goodman

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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 waswhetheran accident had happened and notwhy. 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,…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



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



Epilogue


Notes


Index