| Description |
1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture in literature. |
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American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Property in literature.
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Personal belongings in literature.
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Personal belongings in literature. |
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Property in literature. |
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FICTION -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Indexed Term |
Affect. |
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American Literature. |
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Antebellum Culture. |
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Eighteenth-Century. |
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Embodiment. |
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Nineteenth-Century. |
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Ownership. |
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Phenomenology. |
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Property. |
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Space. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luck, Chad. Body of property : antebellum American fiction and the phenomenology of possession. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2014 ix, 298 pages 9780823263004 |
| ISBN |
9780823263028 (electronic book) |
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0823263029 (electronic book) |
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0823263002 (hardback) |
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9780823263004 (hardback) |
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9780823263035 |
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0823263037 |
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9780823266340 |
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0823266346 |
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9780823263004 |
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