Nan Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nan Goodman |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9908-6243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in the Early United States
Literature and #MeToo
Early in Sarah Polley’s award-winning film Women Talking, we see one of the Mennonite women whose story the film depicts waking up in the morning. Wearing an off-white nightgown, the young woman sits up in bed and stares down at her lap. “It happened again,” she says. At first, it’s not clear what she’s referring to. There appears to be some blood on her legs and possibly on the sheets, but we get just the briefest glimpse, and the image of her l…
Shifting the Blame
Communications
The Illocutions of Exile
This commentary argues that the typical representation of exiles and immigrants in literature be distinguished from their representation in the law, where they are often given not to descriptive and plaintive expressions of their plight, as is the case in so many literary texts, but to simple affirmations of their existence. As the commentary goes on to show, the expression of exilic presence often comes in the form of an illocution – statements …
Introduction
o o d m a n J uris-of the la w -dictio-speech.I invoke the Latin etym ology of this crucial legal concept to highlight the connection between tw o of the three term s that concern us in this special issue of ELN-language and the law.The law is made through and by language.The law is speech and, perhaps less obviously but no less undeniably, speech is law.Both sides of this equation have been at the heart of interdisciplinary studies of law and li…
American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America
This paper argues for a new view of land transfers in seventeenth-century New England that attends not only to the Puritans' conception of land but also to the competing conceptualization of land by the Indians. To get an historically accurate picture of land transfers, I argue, we must look beyond the existing archive of deeds, charters, and patents, to the artifacts of culture that reside not only in the written language used by the Puritans, b…
The Law of the Literary Archive
Research Article| March 01 2007 The Law of the Literary Archive: The Case of the Early American Period Nan Goodman Nan Goodman University of Colorado at Boulder [email protected] Nan Goodman is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 1998; Routledge, 2000) and a number of articl…
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifiing the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America. By Nan Goodman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii, 199 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01199-0.) Get access Tony A. Freyer Tony A. Freyer University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 771–772…
A Clear Showing
NAN GOODMAN A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers . . . even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , The Common Law In the opening scene of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers (1823), Judge Temple is returning with his daughter to the wilderness settlement ofTempleton when he hears the sound of dogs chasing game through the woods. Impulsively and with …
A Clear Showing
NAN GOODMAN A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers . . . even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , The Common Law In the opening scene of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers (1823), Judge Temple is returning with his daughter to the wilderness settlement ofTempleton when he hears the sound of dogs chasing game through the woods. Impulsively and with …
A Clear Showing
NAN GOODMAN A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers . . . even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , The Common Law In the opening scene of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers (1823), Judge Temple is returning with his daughter to the wilderness settlement ofTempleton when he hears the sound of dogs chasing game through the woods. Impulsively and with …
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifiing the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America. By Nan Goodman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii, 199 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01199-0.) Get access Tony A. Freyer Tony A. Freyer University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 771–772…
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
The Law of the Literary Archive
Research Article| March 01 2007 The Law of the Literary Archive: The Case of the Early American Period Nan Goodman Nan Goodman University of Colorado at Boulder [email protected] Nan Goodman is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 1998; Routledge, 2000) and a number of articl…
American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America
This paper argues for a new view of land transfers in seventeenth-century New England that attends not only to the Puritans' conception of land but also to the competing conceptualization of land by the Indians. To get an historically accurate picture of land transfers, I argue, we must look beyond the existing archive of deeds, charters, and patents, to the artifacts of culture that reside not only in the written language used by the Puritans, b…
Introduction
o o d m a n J uris-of the la w -dictio-speech.I invoke the Latin etym ology of this crucial legal concept to highlight the connection between tw o of the three term s that concern us in this special issue of ELN-language and the law.The law is made through and by language.The law is speech and, perhaps less obviously but no less undeniably, speech is law.Both sides of this equation have been at the heart of interdisciplinary studies of law and li…
The Illocutions of Exile
This commentary argues that the typical representation of exiles and immigrants in literature be distinguished from their representation in the law, where they are often given not to descriptive and plaintive expressions of their plight, as is the case in so many literary texts, but to simple affirmations of their existence. As the commentary goes on to show, the expression of exilic presence often comes in the form of an illocution – statements …
Communications
Shifting the Blame
Literature and #MeToo
Early in Sarah Polley’s award-winning film Women Talking, we see one of the Mennonite women whose story the film depicts waking up in the morning. Wearing an off-white nightgown, the young woman sits up in bed and stares down at her lap. “It happened again,” she says. At first, it’s not clear what she’s referring to. There appears to be some blood on her legs and possibly on the sheets, but we get just the briefest glimpse, and the image of her l…
The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in the Early United States
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