Returning the Gift
Returning the Gift
About this book
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.
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- OL21183411W
Subjects
Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941Rhys, jean, 1894-1979Stein, gertrude, 1874-1946H. d. (hilda doolittle), 1886-1961GiftsModernism (literature)Criticism and interpretationSocial aspectsGifts in literature