Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ISBN-13: 9783030932725 / Angielski

Alexandra Urakova

Spis treści

1 Introduction

2 Gifts, Language, Ideology, and the Sentimental

3 Sentimental “Potlatch” and the Making of the Nation

4 Un-Gendering the Gift Book

5 Racial Identity and the Perils of Giving

6 The Poison of the Gift, The Race of the Gift

7 Pure Tokens and Venomous Bodies

8 The Gift/Gifts of Death

9 “The Season of Gifts”: Christmas and Melancholia

10 Conclusion

O autorze

Alexandra Urakova holds a title of docent in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki and is a Kone Foundation research fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland (2021-2024). Her research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, social and cultural history, and anthropology.