Returning the Gift
Subtitle: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198778585
Subjects: Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941; Rhys, jean, 1894-1979; Stein, gertrude, 1874-1946; H. d. (hilda doolittle), 1886-1961; Gifts; Modernism (literature)
Description: 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.