Title: Returning the Gift
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.
Subjects: Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Rhys, jean, 1894-1979, Stein, gertrude, 1874-1946, H. d. (hilda doolittle), 1886-1961, Gifts, Modernism (literature), Criticism and interpretation, Social aspects, Gifts in literature