Shifting the Blame (eBook)

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

Nan Goodman (Autor)

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2021
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22745-0 (ISBN)

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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 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 "e;good Samaritans"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Besonderes Schuldrecht
• Schlagworte: accident • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • act of god • Adams, Henry • Adjudication • Agency (philosophy) • A Hazard of New Fortunes • Ambivalence • Armstrong, John • Asbestosis • Assumption of risk • attempt • Banta, Martha • Bercovitch, Sacvan • Billy Budd • Blumin, Stuart • Boorstin, Daniel • Cardozo, Benjamin • carelessness • Causality • Charles Dickens • Cole, John • color blindness • Commodity • Common carrier • common law and custom • Consideration • Contracts • Cover, Robert • Crane, Stephen • Crime • Criticism • Dane, Nathan • defendant • Determination • DeVoto, Bernard • Dimock, Wai Chee • disaster • Disease • Dispatcher • Don DeLillo • Duty to rescue • Eisenberg, Melvin Aron • Employment • Explanation • Finding • Fiss, Owen • Flagman (rail) • Flanders, Henry • Freud, Sigmund • Friedman, Lawrence • Gallagher, Catherine • Giedion, Siegfried • Goldberg, Reuben Lucius • Goodrich, Peter • Good Samaritan law • Hacking, Ian • Harr, Jonathan • Head-on collision • Heisenberg, Werner • His Family • Horwitz, Howard • Howells, William Dean • Indication (medicine) • indictment • Ingenuity • insurance • Invention • James Fenimore Cooper • Jehlen, Myra • Kaplan, Justin • King, Stephen • Lauck, W. Jett • Law and Literature • lawyer • Legal Doctrine • legal liability • Levy, Leonard • life on the mississippi • Literature • Locke, John • Mark Twain • Marx, Karl • Mass production • Mechanization • Michelson, Bruce • misconduct • Misfeasance • Morality • moral responsibility • Murder • narrative • nautical fiction • negligence • Nelson, William • Obligation • Oliver, Benjamin • oliver wendell holmes jr. • Paine, Albert • Palmer v. Mulligan (1805) • Personal injury • Philbrick, Thomas • plaintiff • Plessy v. Ferguson • Precaution (novel) • Precedent • Property Law • Proximate • Proximate cause • pudd'nhead wilson • Punitive damages • Pym (novel) • Railway signalling • Ralph Nader • Reasonable Person • Recklessness (psychology) • Requirement • rescuer • Responsibility • result • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques • sea captain • Seltzer, Mark • Ship collision • Slavery • steamship • Stratton, George M. • strict liability • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Surrogacy • Symptom • Technology • Tess of the d'Urbervilles • The Marrow of Tradition • The Pioneers (novel) • Tichii, Cecelia • Tort • Toxic tort • Train dispatcher • Twain • Uncertainty • University of Colorado • V. • Wai Chee Dimock • Walce, James • Weiner, Philip P. • Weisberg, Richard • Whiting, Frank • William Dean Howells • Writing • wrongdoing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22745-4 / 0691227454
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22745-0 / 9780691227450