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The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England /

0230608299

9780230608290

b718080

The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England /

[Book]

edited by Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar.

1st ed.

New York, NY :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2009.

xi, 263 pages :

illustrations ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.

Rights and reciprocity in the political and philosophical discourse of eighteenth-century England / Anna Moltchanova and Susannah Ottaway -- Charity education and the spectacle of "Christian entertainment" / Jad Smith -- Debt without redemption in a world of "impossible exchange" : Samuel Richardson and philanthropy / John A. Dussinger -- 'Tis better to give : the conduct manual as gift / Marilyn Francus -- The gift of an education : Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of charity and the Sunday school movement / Dorce Williams Elliott -- Obligation, coercion, and economy : the deed of trust in Congreve's The way of the world / Cynthia Klekar -- The erotics of the gift : gender and exchange in the eighteenth-century novel / Charles Haskell Hinnant -- Fictions of the gift in Sarah Scott's Millennium Hall / Jennie Batchelor -- The nation, the gift, and the market in The wanderer / Linda Zionkowski -- Josiah Wedgwood's goodwill marketing / Susan B. Egenolf -- Anson at Canton, 1743 : obligation, exchange, and ritual in Edward Page's "Secret history" / Robert Markley.

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"Offering a variety of disciplinary perspectives, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long-overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts, cultural documents, and economic relations in the period from 1660-1800. Contributors argue that the gift was instrumental to the workings of eighteenth-century society: it supported the phenomenal rise of charities, explained the increasingly complicated trade relations, enforced conventions of obligation and social hierarchies, and both strengthened and challenged the emergence of a market economy.

Building upon the works of recent theorists, these essays provide innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity."--Jacket.

Culture of the gift in 18th-century England

Locke, John,1632-1704-- Influence.

Locke, John,1632-1704.

English language-- 18th century-- Social aspects.

English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Generosity in literature.

Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.

Social classes-- England-- History-- 18th century.

Engelsk litteratur-- historia-- 1700-talet.

Engelsk litteraturLitteratur-- 1700-talet-- sociala aspekter.

Englisch.

English language-- Social aspects.

English literature.

Generosity in literature.

Geschenk (Motiv)

Geschenk (Motiv)

Geschenk.

Geschenk.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Intellectual life.

Literatur.

Literatur.

Litteratur och politik-- historia-- Storbritannien-- 1700-talet.

Politics and literature.

Social classes.

Great Britain, Intellectual life, 18th century.

England.

England.

England.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

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Klekar, Cynthia.

Zionkowski, Linda.

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