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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Conduct and the Gift
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The Erotics of the Gift
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The Gift and Commerce
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"An exceptionally rich collection, unusually well focused and well organized. Its title belies the breadth of the issues under examination, for the gift ultimately subsumes issues as diverse as poverty, charity, benevolence, sensibility, conduct, poor relief, and the emergence of the welfare state. Because such issues are usually owned by nineteenth-century studies (from the early labor history of the Hammonds up to Gertrude Himmelfarb), it is refreshing to see them pushed back into the eighteenth century. The essays draw on the rich tradition of theorists of the gift, from Mauss, Irigaray, Bourdieu, Cixous, Hyde, Derrida, and Bataille, but in conjunction with an attention to historical detail. What is finally at stake here is our central modernization narrative, the one that presumes an inevitable conflict between subordination and commercialization, when the interlocking chains of deference and obligation (Harold Perkin) are eroded by the morality of improvement (Raymond Williams). This collection will be of interest to anyone studying eighteenth-century culture." - James Thompson, Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
CYNTHIA KLEKAR is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Editor of Comparative Drama, Western Michigan University, USA.
LINDA ZIONKOWSKI is Professor of English, Ohio University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England
Editors: Linda Zionkowski, Cynthia Klekar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618411
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60829-0Published: 13 February 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61841-1Published: 05 January 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Nature Conservation, Gender Studies