From Gift to Commodity
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1611683106
ISBN-13
9781611683103
Publisher
University Press of New England
Imprint
University of New Hampshire Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 11th, 2012
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
381 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 15.00 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticism
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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 occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period''s fiction, she shows how American novelists from Hannah Foster to Frank Norris grappled with the role of the gift based on trust, social bonds, and faith in an increasingly capitalist culture based on self-interest, market transactions, and economic reason.
Placing the notion of sacrifice at the centre of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture.
Placing the notion of sacrifice at the centre of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture.
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