 | Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England Subjects: Debt in literature; Economics and literature -- Great Britain -- History; Debt -- Great Britain -- History; Property -- Great Britain -- History; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; 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. 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. |
