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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.

Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers15Ch. 3Negligence before the Mast: Ship Collisions and the Nautical Literature of the Mid-Nineteenth Century35Ch. 4"Nobody to Blame": Steamboat Accidents and Responsibility in Twain65Ch. 5The Law of the Good Samaritan: Cross-Racial Rescue in Stephen Crane and Charles Chesnutt98Ch. 6Stop, Look, and Listen: The Signs and Signals of the Railroad Accident133Ch. 7Epilogue159Notes171Index193

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 21 July 1998
      ISBN-13 9780691011998
      978-0691011998
      ISBN-10 0691011990
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers15Ch. 3Negligence before the Mast: Ship Collisions and the Nautical Literature of the Mid-Nineteenth Century35Ch. 4"Nobody to Blame": Steamboat Accidents and Responsibility in Twain65Ch. 5The Law of the Good Samaritan: Cross-Racial Rescue in Stephen Crane and Charles Chesnutt98Ch. 6Stop, Look, and Listen: The Signs and Signals of the Railroad Accident133Ch. 7Epilogue159Notes171Index193

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