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Author:

Best, Stephen Michael.

Title:

The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession / Stephen M. Best.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896.--Uncle Tom's cabin.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Law and literature--History--19th century.
African Americans in literature
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Property in literature
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-351) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Slave's two bodies -- Fugitive property -- The Agency of form -- Caveat emptor: fugitive sound: fungible personhood, evanescent property -- Theft and gift -- Copyright law -- The Human phonograph -- The Poetics of property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Impersonation -- Pro bono publico: the fugitive's properties: Uncle Tom's incalculable dividend -- Fictions of finance: puttin' on Old Massa -- Pro bono publico -- Tom's par me la -- Castles in the air -- The Social covenant of property -- Cuttin' of figgers -- Sine qua non: Counterfactuals, causation, and the tenses of "separate but equal" -- In plain black and white -- Parallel tracks -- What happened in the tunnel -- Conclusion: The Rules of the game -- Sin and risk -- Principle and history -- Procedure and pragmatism.

ISBN:

9780226044347 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226044343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226044330 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226044335 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52765809

LCCN:

2003016071

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)