Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange

ISBN-13: 9780198778585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Rebecca Colesworthy

Opis

What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature.

Recenzje

Returning the Gift offers many gifts that redouble and rebound across its pages, perhaps most provocative and compelling in the degree the text holds together both the gift's plenitude and its failures. Returning the Gift makes a significant contribution to modernist studies and to the interdisciplinary study of the gift.

O autorze

Rebecca Colesworthy is an independent scholar and acquisitions editor at SUNY Press. She has taught at Cornell University, New York University, and University at Albany, SUNY, as well as worked in the non-profit sector. She is the co-editor with Peter Nicholls of How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016), has published articles and reviews on modernism, contemporary feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell.