LEADER 04645nam 2200949 450 001 9910807063403321 005 20230803204050.0 010 $a0-8232-6746-6 010 $a0-8232-6634-6 010 $a0-8232-6302-9 010 $a0-8232-6303-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823263028 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216398 035 $a(EBL)3239916 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001292383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11722488 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11282969 035 $a(PQKB)10042663 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239916 035 $a(OCoLC)890533761 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37910 035 $a(DE-B1597)555205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823263028 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239916 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904481 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL671361 035 $a(OCoLC)898120690 035 $a(OCoLC)889302820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1884021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1884021 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216398 100 $a20140814h20142014 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe body of property $eantebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession /$fChad Luck 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Literatures Initiative 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-40079-2 311 $a0-8232-6300-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Pierson v. Post and the Literary Origins of American Property --$t1. Walking the Property: Ownership, Space, and the Body in Motion in Edgar Huntly --$t2. Eating Dwelling Gagging: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and the Phenomenology of Possession --$t3. Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement, and the Plantation Romance --$t14. Feeling at a Loss: Theft and Affect in George Lippard --$tEpilogue. Wisconsin, 2004: Racial Violence and the Bodies of Property --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property?s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions. Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range of other property narratives, Luck unearths a wide-ranging literary effort to understand the nature of ownership, the phenomenology of possession. In these antebellum texts, ownership is not an abstract legal form but a lived relation, a dynamic of embodiment emerging within specific cultural spaces?a disputed frontier, a city agitated by class conflict. Luck challenges accounts that map property practice along a trajectory of abstraction and ?virtualization.? The book also reorients recent Americanist work in emotion and affect by detailing a broader phenomenology of ownership, one extending beyond emotion to such sensory experiences as touch, taste, and vision. This productive blend of phenomenology and history uncovers deep-seated anxieties?and enthusiasms?about property across antebellum culture. 410 0$aAmerican Literatures Initiative 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMaterial culture in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aProperty in literature 606 $aPersonal belongings in literature 610 $aAffect. 610 $aAmerican Literature. 610 $aAntebellum Culture. 610 $aEighteenth-Century. 610 $aEmbodiment. 610 $aNineteenth-Century. 610 $aOwnership. 610 $aPhenomenology. 610 $aProperty. 610 $aSpace. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMaterial culture in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aProperty in literature. 615 0$aPersonal belongings in literature. 676 $a813/.3093553 686 $aLIT004020$aLAW060000$aPHI018000$2bisacsh 700 $aLuck$b Chad$01649034 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807063403321 996 $aThe body of property$93997547 997 $aUNINA