{"product_id":"of-bondage-debt-property-and-personhood-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9780812245165","title":"Of Bondage; Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England (Hardback) 9780812245165","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOf Bondage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDebt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmanda Bailey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245165\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.504 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[Bailey] offers a compelling account of the role of debt in the early modern imaginary. . . . [Her] literary exegesis . . . raises important historical questions.\" (\u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) \"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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, \u003ci\u003eOf Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default.\u003cbr\u003e Amanda Bailey shows that the early modern theater, itself dependent on debt bonds, was well positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event. While plays about debt like \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Custom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e did not use the language of political philosophy, they were artistically and financially invested in exploring freedom as a function of possession. By revealing dramatic literature's heretofore unacknowledged contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Amanda Bailey not only deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period but also sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery. \u003ci\u003eOf Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e is vital not only for students and scholars of English literature but also for those interested in British and colonial legal history, the history of human rights, and the sociology of economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Bound Bodies and the Theater of Debt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \u003ci\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/i\u003e, Forms of Payback, and the Genre of Debt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Shylock and the Slaves: Owing and Owning in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \u003ci\u003eMichaelmas Term\u003c\/i\u003e and the Problem of Satisfaction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Freedom, Bondage, and Redemption in \u003ci\u003eThe Custom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Prison Prose, the Pit, and the End of Tricks\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Debtor and the Slave\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555717378328,"sku":"9780812245165","price":50.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/of-bondage-debt-property-and-personhood-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9780812245165","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}