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almafu_9958352417302883
Format:
1 online resource(224p.) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. , 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812208221
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt --
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Chapter 1. Timon of Athens, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt --
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Chapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in The Merchant of Venice --
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Chapter 3. Michaelmas Term and the Problem of Satisfaction --
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Chapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in The Custom of the Country --
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Chapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks --
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Epilogue: The Debtor and the Slave --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208221
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208221
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208221
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