Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
Author:   Amanda Bailey
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812245165


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 June 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England


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Author:   Amanda Bailey
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780812245165


ISBN 10:   0812245164
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

Reviews

Absorbing and beautifully written. Amanda Bailey thinks about debt as a bodily event at the center of political and moral issues raised by contract law, including the question of self-ownership. -Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University


[Bailey] offers a compelling account of the role of debt in the early modern imaginary...[her] literary exegesis...raises important historical questions. -Sixteenth Century Journal Absorbing and beautifully written. Amanda Bailey thinks about debt as a bodily event at the center of political and moral issues raised by contract law, including the question of self-ownership. -Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University


Author Information

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.

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