The Body of Property : Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession.
Title:
The Body of Property : Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession.
Author:
Luck, Chad.
ISBN:
9780823263035
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents:
Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property -- Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly -- Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and the Phenomenology of Possession -- Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement, and the Plantation Romance -- Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard -- Epilogue. Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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