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Title: The Body of Property Condition: New Subtitle: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession Author: Chad Luck Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0823263002 EAN: 9780823263004 ISBN: 9780823263004 Publisher: Fordham University Press Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 15/09/2014 Description: What 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Release Year: 2014
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