Rebecca Colesworthy (Independent Scholar and S Acquisitions Editor

Returning the Gift

Modernism and the Thought of Exchange

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Produktbeschreibung

What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780198778585
• ISBN-10: 0198778589
• Artikelnr.: 52528233

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Colesworthy is an independent scholar and acquisitions editor at SUNY Press. She has taught at Cornell University, New York University, and University at Albany, SUNY, as well as worked in the non-profit sector. She is the co-editor with Peter Nicholls of How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016), has published articles and reviews on modernism, contemporary feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift
2: Virginia Woolf and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality
3: Jean Rhys and the Fiction of Failed Reciprocity
4: Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Literary Genius
5: H.D. and the Promise of Queer Kinship
Coda: For New York 1941 from London 1941