Nan Hope Goodman

Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Ninteenth-Century America

James Fenimore Cooper

Cooper's work is read carefully by law and literature scholars such as Nan Goodman, who argues that several of Cooper's novels, particularly The Pioneers ...

Shifting the Blame

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...

The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch

Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal relationship between these two poles. In particular, this volume dedicates itself to a reading of religio...

Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England

A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colo...

Shifting the Blame by Nan Goodman (1998-07-01)

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The Turn Around Religion in America by Nan Goodman, Michael P. Kramer (2011) Hardcover

The Turn Around Religion in America by Nan Goodman (2011-11-01)

Cooper's 'The Pioneers' / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Harriet Jacobs' Loopholes of Resistance / Random Harvest & Movie Sentiment / Clarissa & 'Twin Peaks' - Vol 49, # 2, Summer 1993 (Arizona Quarterly)

Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America New edition by Goodman, Nan (1999) Paperback