Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Urakova, Alexandra

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

04/2022

244

Dura

Inglês

9783030932695

15 a 20 dias

467

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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.
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Modernity;Capitalism;United States;Gift giving;Commodity;Symbolism;Indigenous societies;Slavery;Racism;Gender studies;Sentimentalism;Ideology