Of Bondage : Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England.
Title:
Of Bondage : Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England.
Author:
Bailey, Amanda.
ISBN:
9780812208221
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- 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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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