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  1. From gift to commodity
    capitalism and sacrifice in nineteenth-century American fiction
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  University of New Hampshire Press, Durham

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1611683076; 1611683106; 1611683114; 9781611683073; 9781611683103; 9781611683110
    Series: Becoming modern
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literatur; Geschenk; Schenken; Wirtschaft; Kapitalismus; American fiction; Economics in literature; Generosity in literature; Capitalism in literature; Sacrifice in literature; Literatur; Kapitalismus <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 279 p.)
    Notes:

    "Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period's fiction, she shows how American novelists from Hannah Foster to Frank Norris grappled with the role of the gift based on trust, social bonds, and faith in an increasingly capitalist culture based on self-interest, market transactions, and economic reason. Placing the notion of sacrifice at the center of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture."--Project Muse

    Includes bibliographical references and index