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.
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