The Body of Property

Chad Luck is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

Acknowledgements 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