@article{1480655,
      recid = {1480655},
      author = {Luck, Chad,},
      title = {The Body of Property : Antebellum American Fiction and the  Phenomenology of Possession /},
      pages = {1 online resource (312 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480655},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823263028},
}