Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession.
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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Oxford University Press, USA
2015.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x093g |
Table of 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