The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England by Linda Zionkowski, Cynthia Klekar

The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England



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The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England Linda Zionkowski, Cynthia Klekar
Language: English
Page: 276
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0230608299, 9780230608290
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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

About the Author

Linda Zionkowski is Professor of English at Ohio University and author of Men’s Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784. She is currently finishing a book on women and gift economies in novels by Richardson, Burney, and Austen.

 

Cynthia Klekar is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Editor of Comparative Drama at Western Michigan University. Her work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. She is currently completing a book entitled Fictions of the Gift: Generosity, Obligation, and Economy in Eighteenth-Century England.

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