Dangerous giving in nineteenth-century American literature / Alexandra Urakova.
2022
PS217.G54
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Title
Dangerous giving in nineteenth-century American literature / Alexandra Urakova.
ISBN
9783030932701 (electronic bk.)
3030932702 (electronic bk.)
9783030932695
3030932699
3030932702 (electronic bk.)
9783030932695
3030932699
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-93270-1 doi
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PS217.G54
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/35509034
Summary
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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Includes index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 5, 2022).
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American literature readings in the 21st century.
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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.
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.