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Of bondage : debt, property, and personhood in early modern England
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Of bondage : debt, property, and personhood in early modern England / Amanda Bailey.
ISBN
9780812245165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812245164 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
Physical Description
x, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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