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  • The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America
    Nan Goodman / Simon Stern
    Bringing together leading researchers in law and humanities scholarship, this volume focuses on nineteenth-century America, a period when people began to realize that the law was not confined to courts and lawyers, but also found expression in areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. It will serve as a reference for specific informat ...
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    88,78 €

  • Puritan Cosmopolis
    Nan Goodman
    The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with people in remote places, ...
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    141,40 €

  • Shifting the Blame
    Nan Goodman
    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 p...
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    268,18 €

  • Shifting the Blame
    Nan Goodman
    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 p...
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    77,48 €

  • Shifting the Blame
    Nan Goodman
    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 industrializing society, Goodman shows how courts moved away from the doctrine of strict...
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    140,69 €