{"product_id":"the-body-of-property-9780823263004","title":"The Body of Property","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Luck's focus on the phenomenological experience of ownership in the early nineteenth century is new and revealing. Whether looking at the frontier romance, the urban gothic, the domestic novel, or the plantation narrative, Luck convincingly shows how changing notions of property were intimately linked to evolving notions of embodiment and selfhood.\" -- -David Anthony Southern Illinois University, Carbondale \"Written with force and grace, The Body of Property shows how antebellum literature stepped in to address questions that legal thought largely evaded: how do we come to own a thing? Why does property require bodies? Offering us a 'phenomenology of possession' in authors ranging from Brown to Stoddard, from J. P. Kennedy to George Lippard, Chad Luck provides a genuinely new account of the cultural work undertaken by antebellum fiction, as it thinks through embodiment and possession in a range of social locations: frontier, parlor, plantation, cityscape. This is a terrific book, well-researched, theoretically nimble, and full of interpretive insight.\" -- -Jonathan Elmer Indiana University \"Luck combines a truly impressive archive of antebellum writing, legal and cultural history, Enlightenment philosophy, and phenomenology with an innovative methodology to tell a new history of property in American literature and culture -- the history of what property feels like, from the body to the spaces of the home, the plantation, and the city.\" -- -Jennifer Greiman University at Albany, SUNY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements                      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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406139629911,"sku":"9780823263004","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823263004.jpg?v=1730494662","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-body-of-property-9780823263004","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}