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

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luck, Chad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1700-1899
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.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Objets personnels dans la littérature.
FICTION > General.
American fiction.
Affect.
American Literature.
Antebellum Culture.
Eighteenth-Century.
Embodiment.
Nineteenth-Century.
Ownership.
Phenomenology.
Property.
Space.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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