Of Bondage – Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2013

Focusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period and sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery.A

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812245165
ISBN-10: 0812245164
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 187 x 236 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press

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"Absorbing and beautifully written. Amanda Bailey thinks about debt as a bodily event at the center of political and moral issues raised by contract law, including the question of self-ownership."-Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University

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Preface* Introduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt Chapter 1. Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt Chapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice Chapter 3. Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction Chapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country Chapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks Epilogue: The Debtor and the Slave Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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