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Accident Law
accident liability transformation
Accident Narrative
agency and responsibility
American legal culture
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Ethnic Group's Theory
Ethnic Group’s Theory
Fellow Servant Rule
Fireman
Good Samaritan
Human Leukemogen
Human Suffering
Industrial Ironing
industrialization impact
Judge Temple
legal consciousness
Literary Telling
Negligence Doctrine
Negligence Law
Nineteenth Century American Culture
nineteenth-century jurisprudence
Ordinary Care
Panther Attack
Quiet Enjoyment
Railroad Stories
Seaman's Friend
Seaman’s Friend
Ship Collisions
Strict Liability
tort law history
Toxic Tort
Product details
- ISBN 9780415926843
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
