The fugitive's properties law and the poetics of possession / Stephen M. Best.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2004.; ©2004Description: 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780226241111
- 0226241114
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Uncle Tom's cabin
- Law and literature -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans in literature
- Fugitive slaves in literature
- Property in literature
- Race in literature
- PS217.55
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | PS217.55 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn642208863 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 volume 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.
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