Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Paperback / softback
by Alexandra Urakova
Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century series
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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 in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature.
Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O.
Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.
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- Pages:244 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 244 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:29/04/2023
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- ISBN:9783030932725
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 244 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:29/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030932725
