Overview
- Examines the social, legal, economic, and historical forms of debt in the early modern period
- Draws on Renaissance drama including Shakespeare
- Considers countries and cultures beyond England
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics (PSLCE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family, Household, Community
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Debt’s Networks
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The Indebted Self
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Back Matter
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About this book
Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laura Kolb is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College CUNY, USA. She is the author of Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (2021).
George Oppitz-Trotman is the author of The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy (2019) and Stages of Loss. The English Comedians and their Reception (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Debts
Book Subtitle: 1550–1700
Editors: Laura Kolb, George Oppitz-Trotman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59769-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59768-9Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59771-9Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59769-6Published: 30 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 416
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literature, general, Economic History