Of Bondage : : Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England / / Amanda Bailey.
The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical j...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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