| Description |
279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Nineteenth-century American fiction and the inevitable, (im)possible, maddening importance of the gift -- Sacrifices of a nation. The new republic and the aporia of responsibility: prudent economy, speculation, and (ir)responsible sacrifice in Hannah Foster's Coquette -- Self-sacrifice or preservation: Lydia Maria Child's reflections on the gift in Hobomok and The American Frugal Housewife -- Panic fictions. Panics, gifts, and faith in Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World -- From grateful slave to greedy banker: William Wells Brown's Clotel and the circulation of shinplaster fiction -- From Typee to The Confidence-Man: Herman Melville and the (im)possibility of the gift -- Fading gifts and rising profits. Gifts and markets: grotesque economic confusions in William Dean Howells's portrayal of the "incorporation of America" -- Enigma and precision: the Golden Tooth and the horrors of the end of the gift in Frank Norris's McTeague. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Economics in literature.
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Generosity in literature.
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Capitalism in literature.
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Sacrifice in literature.
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| ISBN |
9781611683103 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781611683073 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1611683076 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1611683106 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781611683110 (ebook) |
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1611683114 (ebook) |
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