Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Urakova, Alexandra (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,
Subjects:	America-Literatures. Literature, Modern-19th century. Anthropology and the arts. North American Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Anthropology of the Arts. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.