The body of property antebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession
Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property -- American Literature and the Problem of Property -- Property in Antebellum Culture -- A Phenomenology of Property -- The Space of Property -- Chapter One - Walking the P...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Fordham Univ. Press
2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property -- American Literature and the Problem of Property -- Property in Antebellum Culture -- A Phenomenology of Property -- The Space of Property -- Chapter One - Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly -- Condillac's Statue and the Primacy of Touch -- Touching on the Other: Bodily Frontiers and the Production of Space -- Walking the Property: Mobility and the Appropriation of Space -- Chapter Two - Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard and the Phenomenology of Possession -- Possession without Acquisition: Eating, Enjoyment, and the -- "Beginning of Property" -- Home Bodies: Domestic Space and Possession Proper -- Mother's Milk: Private Property and the Feminine Economy of the Gift -- Chapter Three - Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement and the Plantation Romance -- Southern Discomfort: Debt in the Slaveholding South -- Owning and Owing: Woodcraft and the Phenomenology of Debt -- Slave Narrative and the Senses of Entitlement -- The Structure of the Debt: Swallow Barn and the Space of the Plantation -- Chapter Four - Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard -- A Culture of Theft -- Distress Signals: Theft, Body, Affect -- Kleptophobia and the Architecture of Loss -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Market in the Grave -- Epilogue - Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property -- Notes -- Works Cited. "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"-- "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 298 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780823263004 978-0-8232-6300-4 |