TY - GEN N2 - What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature. AB - What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature. T1 - Returning the gift :modernism and the thought of exchange / AU - Colesworthy, Rebecca, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - GT3040 ID - 846043 KW - Gifts KW - Gifts in literature. SN - 9780191823893 TI - Returning the gift :modernism and the thought of exchange / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778585.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778585.001.0001 ER -