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Author:

Zionkowski, Linda, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00027345

Title:

Women and gift exchange in eighteenth-century fiction : Richardson, Burney, Austen / Linda Zionkowski.

Publisher:

Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

252 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Ceremonial exchange in literature.
Manners and customs in literature.
Generosity in literature.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Ceremonial exchange in literature.
English fiction.
Generosity in literature.
Manners and customs in literature.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Great Britain.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The novel and the gift -- Clarissa and the hazards of the gift -- Reclaiming the gift in Sir Charles Grandison -- The gift and the market in Cecilia -- The gift and the nation in The Wanderer -- Transforming the gift in Mansfield Park -- Trifling presents in Emma.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 11

ISBN:

1138645230
9781138645233

OCLC:

(OCoLC)943681098

LCCN:

2016004256

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)