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From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction
- Title
- From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction / Hildegard Hoeller.
- Author
- Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-
- Publication
- Durham : University of New Hampshire Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 279 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern: New nineteenth-century studies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
- Contents
- Nineteenth-century American fiction and the inevitable, (im)possible, maddening importance of the gift -- Sacrifices of a nation. The new republic and the aporia of responsibility: prudent economy, speculation, and (ir)responsible sacrifice in Hannah Foster's Coquette -- Self-sacrifice or preservation: Lydia Maria Child's reflections on the gift in Hobomok and The American Frugal Housewife -- Panic fictions. Panics, gifts, and faith in Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World -- From grateful slave to greedy banker: William Wells Brown's Clotel and the circulation of shinplaster fiction -- From Typee to The Confidence-Man: Herman Melville and the (im)possibility of the gift -- Fading gifts and rising profits. Gifts and markets: grotesque economic confusions in William Dean Howells's portrayal of the "incorporation of America" -- Enigma and precision: the Golden Tooth and the horrors of the end of the gift in Frank Norris's McTeague.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-7802
- ISBN
- 9781611683073 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611683076 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611683103 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1611683106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012004005
- OCLC
- 777327449
- Author
- Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-
- Title
- From gift to commodity : capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction / Hildegard Hoeller.
- Imprint
- Durham : University of New Hampshire Press, c2012.
- Series
- Becoming modern: New nineteenth-century studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7802