The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England /

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Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:	xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Locke, John, -- 1632-1704 -- Influence. Locke, John, -- 1632-1704. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Generosity in literature. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Social classes -- England -- History -- 18th century. English language -- 18th century -- Social aspects. English language -- Social aspects. English literature. Generosity in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life. Politics and literature. Social classes. Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. England. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7541975

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Other authors / contributors:	Zionkowski, Linda. Klekar, Cynthia.
ISBN:	0230608299 (alk. paper) 9780230608290 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
I. Theories of Benevolence
1. Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England
2. Charity Education and the Spectacle of "Christian Entertainment"
3. Debt without Redemption in a World of "Impossible Exchange": Samuel Richardson and Philanthropy
II. Conduct and the Gift
4. 'Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift
5. The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement
III. The Erotics of the Gift
6. Obligation, Coercion, and Economy: The Deed of Trust in Congreve's The Way of the World
7. The Erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
8. Fictions of the Gift in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall
9. The Nation, the Gift, and the Market in The Wanderer
IV. The Gift and Commerce
10. Josiah Wedgwood's Goodwill Marketing
11. Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page's "Secret History"
Bibliography
Index

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