From Gift to Commodity - Capitalism and Sacrifice in Nineteenth-century American Fiction

Informationen zum Autor HILDEGARD HOELLER is professor of English, College of Staten Island, and professor of English and women's studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is author of Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick. Klappentext Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction Zusammenfassung Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift! and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order! in nineteenth-century American fiction

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• Authors: Hildegard Hoeller
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2012
• EAN: 9781611683103
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-310-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteent; Becoming Modern: New Nineteent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous