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Of bondage : debt, property, and personhood in early modern England /

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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bailey, Amanda, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edición:[First edition].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt
  • Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt
  • Shylock and the Slaves : Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice
  • Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction
  • Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country
  • Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks
  • Epilogue : The Debtor and the Slave.