The fugitive's properties [electronic resource] : law and the poetics of possession / Stephen M. Best.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 362 p.) : illISBN:- 9780226241111 (e-book)
- 0226241114 (e-book)
- 9780226044330 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226044335 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin
- 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
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Rechtsstatus
- Literatur
- Sklave
- USA
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- 810.9/3552 22
- PS217.S55 B47 2004eb
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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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