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

Autor Linda Zionkowski
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iun 2016
This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings of the gift's rationale, purpose, and function. Drawing on materials such as sermons, conduct books, works of political philosophy, and tracts on social reform, Zionkowski challenges the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. Instead, by shifting attention to the gift system as it was imagined and enacted in the formative years of the novel, the volume offers an innovative understanding of how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community. Through theoretically-informed readings of Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer, and Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma, the book foregrounds the issues of donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at the center of these conflicts. As this study reveals, the exchanges that eighteenth-century fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing power and importance of gift transactions in the midst of an increasingly commercial culture. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, economic literary criticism, women and gender studies, and book history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138645233
ISBN-10: 1138645230
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: 3
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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"

Descriere

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, foregrounding donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at their center. As this study reveals, the exchanges that 18C fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing importance of gift transactions in an increasingly commercial culture.