Shifting the blame
Law in literature
Law and literature
Liability (Law)
American literature, history and criticism, 19th century
19th century
Littérature américaine
American literature
United States
History and criticism
History
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 industri…
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