Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen

ISBN-13: 9780367877484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Linda Zionkowski

Opis

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, for

Spis treści

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"

O autorze

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.