Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gifts, Language, Ideology, and the Sentimental
- 3 Sentimental “Potlatch” and the Making of the Nation
- 4 Un-Gendering the Gift Book
- 5 Racial Identity and the Perils of Giving
- 6 The Poison of the Gift, The Race of the Gift
- 7 Pure Tokens and Venomous Bodies
- 8 The Gift/Gifts of Death
- 9 “The Season of Gifts”: Christmas and Melancholia
- 10 Conclusion