The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England
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Product details:
- Edition number 2009
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 13 February 2009
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230608290
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages263 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 475 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XI, 263 p. 0
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Long description:
The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity.
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PART I: THEORIES OF BENEVOLENCE Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England; A.Moltchanova & S.Ottaway Charity Education and the Spectacle of 'Christian Entertainment'; J.Smith Debt without Redemption in a World of 'Impossible Exchange': Samuel Richardson and Philanthropy; J.A.Dussinger PART II: CONDUCT AND THE GIFT 'Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift; M.Francus The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement; D.Williams Elliott PART III: THE EROTICS OF THE GIFT Obligation, Coercion, and Economy: The Deed of Trust in Congreve's The Way of the World; C.Klekar The Erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Novel; C.Haskell Hinnant Fictions of the Gift in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall; J.Batchelor The Nation, the Gift, and the Market in The Wanderer; L.Zionkowski PART IV: THE GIFT AND COMMERCE Josiah Wedgewood's Goodwill Marketing; S.B.Egenolf Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page's Secret History; R.Markley
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