How Long to Read The Fugitive's Properties

How Long Does it Take to Read The Fugitive's Properties?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read The Fugitive's Properties by Stephen M. Best

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.

How long is The Fugitive's Properties?

The Fugitive's Properties by Stephen M. Best is 376 pages long, and a total of 96,256 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Fugitive's Properties Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 45 minutes to read The Fugitive's Properties aloud.

What Reading Level is The Fugitive's Properties?

The Fugitive's Properties is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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