Selfish Gifts
Alison V. Scott
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Description for Selfish Gifts
Hardback. Num Pages: 303 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 608.
Engaging with a wide range of texts on gift-theory, extending from Senecas De Beneficiis to Derridas Given Time, Selfish Gifts examines the importance of gift ethics and the rhetoric of honorable giving to the literature of late Elizabeth and early Stuart England. It demonstrates that the ideal of the freely given and disinterested gift shaped the language of early modern clientage, along with literary representations of patrons and patronage systems during this period. Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their ... Read more
Engaging with a wide range of texts on gift-theory, extending from Senecas De Beneficiis to Derridas Given Time, Selfish Gifts examines the importance of gift ethics and the rhetoric of honorable giving to the literature of late Elizabeth and early Stuart England. It demonstrates that the ideal of the freely given and disinterested gift shaped the language of early modern clientage, along with literary representations of patrons and patronage systems during this period. Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473186
SKU
V9781611473186
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99-15
About Alison V. Scott
Alison V. Scott is an honorary associate professor in the Department of English at Macquarie, Sydney, Australia.
Reviews for Selfish Gifts
Again and again her volume resists easy, simplistic explanations in favor of richly complex analyses that emphasize the complications of living and writing in a fluidly competitive but rigidly hierarchical society. Of particular interest is her opening application of some of her ideas to Shakespeare's King Lear; here her comments on history and society are effectively blended with detailed discussion ... Read more