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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Resina, Cultures of Currencies: Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money
SP  - 165-78
ID  - bbbm169
T1  - "'I Have Sworn an Oath That I Will Have My Bond': Money, Law, and Prelegal Liability in Shakespeare and Kleist"
AU  - Moser, Christian
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
DO  - doi.org/10.4324/9781003265733-11
KW  - economics
KW  - law
LA  - English
AB  - Evaluates questions of liability and social obligation in Merchant of Venice and Heinrich von Kleist's novella, Michael Kohlhaas (1808-10). Argues each literary work exposes "contradictions of a society in transition from feudalism to a capitalist economy." 
ER  -