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From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction /
"Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
University of New Hampshire Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Becoming modern.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nineteenth-century American fiction and the inevitable, (im)possible, maddening importance of the gift
- Sacrifices of a nation. The new republic and the aporia of responsibility: prudent economy, speculation, and (ir)responsible sacrifice in Hannah Foster's Coquette
- Self-sacrifice or preservation: Lydia Maria Child's reflections on the gift in Hobomok and The American Frugal Housewife
- Panic fictions. Panics, gifts, and faith in Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World
- From grateful slave to greedy banker: William Wells Brown's Clotel and the circulation of shinplaster fiction
- From Typee to The Confidence-Man: Herman Melville and the (im)possibility of the gift
- Fading gifts and rising profits. Gifts and markets: grotesque economic confusions in William Dean Howells's portrayal of the "incorporation of America"
- Enigma and precision: the Golden Tooth and the horrors of the end of the gift in Frank Norris's McTeague.