Amanda Bailey

Of Bondage

Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812245165
• ISBN-10: 0812245164
• Artikelnr.: 36936550

Autorenporträt

Amanda Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland and author of Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.

Inhaltsangabe

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