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Author:

Luck, Chad. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014031088

Title:

The body of property : antebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession / Chad Luck.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

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.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LAW / Legal History.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology.
American fiction.
Law and literature.
Material culture in literature.
Personal belongings in literature.
Property in literature.
United States.
1700 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0823263002
9780823263004

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880929585

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)