... Duke University Press 2011 Reviews EDITORIAL NOTE On Margaret Atwood’s Payback The five pieces following are less reviews of, than engagements with, Margaret Atwood’s book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side...

...Aidan O'Neill Aidan O'Neill remembers Britain as a fundamentally riven society twenty-five years ago under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher; a country divided by she who sought to rule it with certainty, but without compassion. The memories of Britain as a bitter and broken polity split asunder...

...Bethany Moreton This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback centers on the observation that the book does not dwell on the unnatural face of interest and finance. In this era of financialization, debt has been thoroughly uncoupled from the concept of payback. The least valuable debt is the one...

...Chris Briggs What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on “The Shadow Side” shows, the unpaid debt—in the broadest sense—is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which...

...William M. Chace Some writers are drawn, almost as if hexed, to pronounce on matters of state, politics, and, occasionally, economic policy. Margaret Atwood is one such writer. Her book Payback suffers from its aspiration to create an idealistic and implausible world to take the place of the one we...

...Philip Goodchild This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback shows how the book's accomplishment is to provide a Jungian analysis of the “shadow” of wealth: the primitive meanings attached to debt deriving from ancient cultural configurations of a proper balance in the order of things. Debt...

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..., Margaret Reid, and Thomas Shapcott 319 REJOINDER LITTLE REVIEWS The Disunity of Aesthetics: Clifford Geertz A Response to J. G. A. Pocock Wayne Andersen Casey Haskins Myrna Goldenberg 326...

... Unfinished Business NOTES ON THREE NORTHERN ENGLISH QUIETISTS Colin Richmond What if Sir Thomas More had given up pursuit of the fancier title —  saint — in order (a) not to burden Margaret Roper with buying her father’s parboiled head from a man whose job was throwing it into the Thames...

..., England. The vil- lage was an ancient human ecosystem: intimate, independent, proud, and kind. It, and the communities around it, were systematically destroyed by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s precisely because those qualities were deemed to have no place in a neoliberal Britain. Their destruction...