The culture of the gift in eighteenth-century England /
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
Description: | xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7541975 |
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