Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-century American Literature, Hardcover by Urak...

Description: Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-century American Literature, Hardcover by Urakova, Alexandra, ISBN 3030932699, ISBN-13 9783030932695, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature. Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O. Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.

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Book Title: Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Number of Pages: Xv, 244 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G

Topic: Modern / 19th Century, American / General, Anthropology / General

Publication Year: 2022

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science

Item Weight: 16.5 Oz

Author: Alexandra Urakova

Item Length: 8.3 in

Book Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Ser.

Item Width: 5.8 in

Format: Hardcover