The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England

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ISBN: 9780230608290 | 0230608299
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/15/2008

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The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Theories of Benevolence
Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England	p. 15
Charity Education and the Spectacle of "Christian Entertainment"	p. 37
Debt without Redemption in a World of "Impossible Exchange": Samuel Richardson and Philanthropy	p. 55
Conduct and the Gift
'Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift	p. 79
The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement	p. 107
The Erotics of the Gift
Obligation, Coercion, and Economy: The Deed of Trust in Congreve's The Way of the World	p. 125
The Erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Novel	p. 143
Fictions of the Gift in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall	p. 159
The Nation, the Gift, and the Market in The Wanderer	p. 177
The Gift and Commerce
Josiah Wedgwood's Goodwill Marketing	p. 197
Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page's "Secret History"	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 253
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