03200nam 22005775 450 991056825370332120240701120757.09783030932701(electronic bk.)978303093269510.1007/978-3-030-93270-1(MiAaPQ)EBC6965097(Au-PeEL)EBL6965097(CKB)21707952100041(DE-He213)978-3-030-93270-1(EXLCZ)992170795210004120220427d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature /by Alexandra Urakova1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (253 pages)American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,2634-5803Print version: Urakova, Alexandra Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030932695 1 Introduction -- 2 Gifts, Language, Ideology, and the Sentimental -- 3 Sentimental "Potlatch" and the Making of the Nation -- 4 Un-Gendering the Gift Book -- 5 Racial Identity and the Perils of Giving -- 6 The Poison of the Gift, The Race of the Gift -- 7 Pure Tokens and Venomous Bodies -- 8 The Gift/Gifts of Death -- 9 "The Season of Gifts": Christmas and Melancholia -- 10 Conclusion.This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature. Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O. Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,2634-5803AmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern19th centuryAnthropology and the artsNorth American LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureAnthropology of the ArtsAmericaLiteratures.Literature, ModernAnthropology and the arts.North American Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Anthropology of the Arts.810.9003810.935509034Urakova A. P.1264530MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910568253703321Dangerous giving in nineteenth-century American literature2965126UNINA