TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Stephen Michael
TI  - The fugitive's properties: law and the poetics of possession 
SN  - 9780226241111 (e-book)
AV  - PS217.S55 B47 2004eb
U1  - 810.9/3552 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - History
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Fugitive slaves in literature
KW  - Property in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Rechtsstatus
KW  - swd
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Sklave
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-351) 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 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
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