Returning the gift : modernism and the thought of exchange /

The decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions have the authority to give? Returning the Gift argues that these questions centrally shaped litera...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Colesworthy, Rebecca (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gifts. Exchange. Gifts in literature. Cadeaux. Échange (Économie politique) Cadeaux dans la littérature. gifts (object genre) SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions. Exchange Gifts Gifts in literature Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Marcel Mauss and the turn to the gift
Virginia Woolf and the limits of feminine hospitality
Jean Rhys and the fiction of failed reciprocity
Gertrude Stein and the politics of literary genius
H.D. and the promise of queen kinship
Coda.