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

Name: Shifting the Blame
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781138165403
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ISBN: 9781138165403

by Nan Goodman

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1138165409

ISBN-13 9781138165403

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 27th, 2017

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 453 grams

Product Classification: History of the Americas Social & cultural history History of the Americas Social and cultural history

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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 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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