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  • The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/005
    書名/作者: The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England/ edited by Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar.
    其他作者: Zionkowski, Linda.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xi, 263 p.) : : ill.
    附註: Description based on print version record.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Generosity in literature.
    標題: Politics and literature - History - 18th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Social classes - History - 18th century. - England
    標題: English language - Social aspects. - 18th century
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230618411 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230618413 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.
    內容註: Part I. Theories of Benevolence -- Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England / AnnaMoltchanova and Susannah Ottaway -- Charity Education and the Spectacle of "Christian Entertainment" / Jad Smith -- Debt without Redemption in a World of "Impossible Exchange" : Samuel Richardson and Philanthropy/ John A. Dussinger -- Part II. Conduct and the Gift. Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift / Marilyn Francus -- The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement / Dorice 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 / Cynthia Klekar -- The Erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Novel / Charles Haskell Hinnant -- Fictions of the Gift in Sarah Scott's MilleniumHall / Jennie Batchelor -- The Nation, the Gift, and the Market in The Wanderer / Linda Zionkowski -- Part IV. The Gift and Commerce -- Josiah Wedgewood's Goodwill Marketing / Susan B. Egenolf -- Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page's Secret History / Robert Markley.
    摘要、提要註: Offering a variety of disciplinary perspectives, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long-overlooked role ofgift exchange in literary texts, cultural documents, and economic relations in the period from 1660-1800. Contributors argue that the gift was instrumental to the workings of eighteenth-century society: it supported the phenomenal rise of charities, explained the increasingly complicated trade relations, enforced conventions of obligation and social hierarchies, and both strengthened and challenged the emergence of a market economy. Building upon theworks of recent theorists, these essays provide innovative readings of how gift transactions shapedthe institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity.
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