Linda Zionkowski

Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Richardson, Burney, Austen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes how major novelists of the long 18C centered on the theory and practice of gift exchange, challenging the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. It explores how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community, foregrounding donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at their center. As this study reveals, the exchanges that 18C fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing importance of gift transactions in an increasingly commercial culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317240471
• Artikelnr.: 45135906

Autorenporträt

Linda Zionkowski is Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature. Her publications include Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784; The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England (with Cynthia Klekar); and most recently, articles on the musical culture of Jane Austen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Novel and the Gift
1. Clarissa and the Hazards of the Gift
2. Reclaiming the Gift in Sir Charles Grandison
3. Three: The Gift and the Market in Cecilia
4. The Gift and the Nation in The Wanderer
5. Transforming the Gift in Mansfield Park
6. Trifling Presents in Emma
Conclusion: "Nothing better that I can do in the world"