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The Body of Property : Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Temple University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823263035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Body of PropertyDDC classification:
  • 813.309
LOC classification:
  • PS374.M39 -- .L83 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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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