{"product_id":"shifting-the-blame-9780691011998","title":"Shifting the Blame","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsCh. 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403675050327,"sku":"9780691011998","price":78.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691011998.jpg?v=1730484222","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shifting-the-blame-9780691011998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}