Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Alexandra Urakova
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-093269-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	3-03-093269-9
Barcode:	9783030932695

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