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The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession / Stephen M. Best.
- Title
- The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession / Stephen M. Best.
- Author
- Best, Stephen Michael.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 362 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible personified property emerging out of antebellum laws circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- 1800-1899
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
- Law and literature > History > 19th century
- African Americans in literature
- Fugitive slaves in literature
- Property in literature
- Race in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-351) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: The Slave's Two Bodies -- Fugitive Property -- The Agency of Form -- Caveat Emptor: Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property -- Theft and Gift -- Copyright Law -- The Human Phonograph -- The Poetics of Property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Impersonation -- Pro Bono Publico: The Fugitive's Properties: Uncle Tom's Incalculable Dividend -- Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa -- Pro Bono Publico -- Tom's par me la -- Castles in the Air -- The Social Covenant of Property -- Cuttin' of Figgers -- Sine Qua Non: Counterfactuals, Causation, and the Tenses of "Separate but Equal" -- In Plain Black and White -- Parallel Tracks -- What Happened in the Tunnel -- CONCLUSION: The Rules of the Game -- Sin and Risk -- Principle and History -- Procedure and Pragmatism.
- ISBN
- 0226044335 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226044343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003016071
- OCLC
- 52765809
- SCSB-9924468
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library