1st Edition
Shifting the Blame Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America
By Nan Goodman
Copyright 1998
214 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
