Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9783030932701
ISBN-13 : 3030932702
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Book Synopsis Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by : Alexandra Urakova

Download or read book Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Alexandra Urakova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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