Screen LibraryOf bondage : debt, property, and personhood in early modern england /
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.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 1 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208221 |
| Index Number: | PR3021 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- 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. |