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The body of property : antebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession
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"Explores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century"--
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- Creator
- Chad Luck
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- ix, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780823263035, 0823266346, 0823263002, 0823263037, 9780823266340, 9780823263004, 0823263029, 9780823267460, 9780823263028, 0823267466, 1322400792
- OCLC
- ocn880929585, ocn898120690, ocn889302820, ocn890533761
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.
- Introduction: Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property -- 1. Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly -- 2. Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard and the Phenomenology of Possession -- 3. Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement and the Plantation Romance -- 4. Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard -- Epilogue: Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property -- American Literature and the Problem of Property -- Property in Antebellum Culture -- A Phenomenology of Property -- The Space of Property -- Chapter One -- Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly -- Condillac's Statue and the Primacy of Touch -- Touching on the Other: Bodily Frontiers and the Production of Space -- Walking the Property: Mobility and the Appropriation of Space -- Chapter Two -- Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard and the Phenomenology of Possession -- Possession without Acquisition: Eating, Enjoyment, and the -- "Beginning of Property" -- Home Bodies: Domestic Space and Possession Proper -- Mother's Milk: Private Property and the Feminine Economy of the Gift -- Chapter Three -- Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement and the Plantation Romance -- Southern Discomfort: Debt in the Slaveholding South -- Owning and Owing: Woodcraft and the Phenomenology of Debt -- Slave Narrative and the Senses of Entitlement -- The Structure of the Debt: Swallow Barn and the Space of the Plantation -- Chapter Four -- Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard -- A Culture of Theft -- Distress Signals: Theft, Body, Affect -- Kleptophobia and the Architecture of Loss -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Market in the Grave -- Epilogue -- Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property -- Notes -- Works Cited
Subjects
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Material culture in literature.
- American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Property in literature.
- Personal belongings in literature.
- Law and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Law and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.