04645nam 2200949 450 991078689640332120230803204050.00-8232-6746-60-8232-6634-60-8232-6302-90-8232-6303-710.1515/9780823263028(CKB)3710000000216398(EBL)3239916(SSID)ssj0001292383(PQKBManifestationID)11722488(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292383(PQKBWorkID)11282969(PQKB)10042663(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111265(MiAaPQ)EBC3239916(OCoLC)890533761(MdBmJHUP)muse37910(DE-B1597)555205(DE-B1597)9780823263028(Au-PeEL)EBL3239916(CaPaEBR)ebr10904481(CaONFJC)MIL671361(OCoLC)898120690(OCoLC)889302820(MiAaPQ)EBC1884021(Au-PeEL)EBL1884021(EXLCZ)99371000000021639820140814h20142014 uy 1engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe body of property antebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession /Chad LuckFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (308 p.)American Literatures InitiativeIncludes index.1-322-40079-2 0-8232-6300-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --14. Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard --Epilogue. Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property --Notes --Works Cited --IndexWhat does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions. Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range of other property narratives, Luck unearths a wide-ranging literary effort to understand the nature of ownership, the phenomenology of possession. In these antebellum texts, ownership is not an abstract legal form but a lived relation, a dynamic of embodiment emerging within specific cultural spaces—a disputed frontier, a city agitated by class conflict. Luck challenges accounts that map property practice along a trajectory of abstraction and “virtualization.” The book also reorients recent Americanist work in emotion and affect by detailing a broader phenomenology of ownership, one extending beyond emotion to such sensory experiences as touch, taste, and vision. This productive blend of phenomenology and history uncovers deep-seated anxieties—and enthusiasms—about property across antebellum culture.American Literatures InitiativeAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismMaterial culture in literatureAmerican fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismProperty in literaturePersonal belongings in literatureAffect.American Literature.Antebellum Culture.Eighteenth-Century.Embodiment.Nineteenth-Century.Ownership.Phenomenology.Property.Space.American fictionHistory and criticism.Material culture in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Property in literature.Personal belongings in literature.813/.3093553LIT004020LAW060000PHI018000bisacshLuck Chad1567959MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786896403321The body of property3839758UNINA