Shifting the Blame Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America |
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| Author:
| Goodman, Nan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-01199-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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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, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America.