Returning The Gift: Modernism And The Thought Of Exchange

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.

• | Author: Rebecca Colesworthy
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 25, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0198778589
• | ISBN-13: 9780198778585