Jill Rappoport

Giving Women

Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on novels, poetry, periodicals, and political pamphlets, Giving Women examines the literary expression and cultural consequences of gift exchange among English women from the 1820s until the end of the First World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199772605
• ISBN-10: 0199772606
• Artikelnr.: 47865281

Autorenporträt

Jill Rappoport is Assistant Professor of English at University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
I. Women Giving
II. Gifts of Writing
III. Organization of the Book
PART I Balanced Accounts
CHAPTER 1 Literary Offerings
I. Benevolent Books, Receptive Readers
II. Gifts of Freedom
III. Alliance and Exchange
CHAPTER 2 Fictions of Reciprocity in Jane Eyre and Aurora Leigh
I. Jane's Inheritance
II. "An[other] Undowered Orphan"
III. Blind Economies
CHAPTER 3 Conservation in Cranford:
Sympathy, Secrets, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
I. The Science of Giving
II. Secrets in Circulation
PART II Much Obliged
CHAPTER 4 The Price of Redemption in "Goblin Marke"
I. Sisterhood "Beyond the Reach of Any Remuneration"
II. Lizzie's Silver Penny
III. The Safest Investments
CHAPTER 5 Service and Savings in the Slums
I. "Lower Still": Sacrifice and Sistering the Slums
II. Cupboards, Chairs, and Conversion
III. "Coming Down" in order to Rise Up: Risk and Asset
IV. Writing the Slums
CHAPTER 6 The Give and Take of "New-Woman" Eugenics
I. Consuming Women, Selfish Mothers
II. Bio-Altruism
III. The Sacrifice of Motherhood
EPILOGUE Homemade Jams and Militant Martyrs:
Politics of Generosity in Campaigns for Women's Suffrage
I. Appealing for the Vote
II. Dying for the Vote
III. A Politics of Generosity
WORKS CITED