ISBN: 9780415228695

New. This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, f… Mehr…

New. This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings of the gift's rationale, purpose, and function. Drawing on materials such as sermons, conduct books, works of political philosophy, and tracts on social reform, Zionkowski challenges the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. Instead, by shifting attention to the gift system as it was imagined and enacted in the formative years of the novel, the volume offers an innovative understanding of how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community. Through theoretically-informed readings of Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer, and Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma, the book foregrounds the issues of donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at the center of these conflicts. As this study reveals, the exchanges that eighteenth-century fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing power and importance of gift transactions in the midst of an increasingly commercial culture. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, economic literary criticism, women and gender studies, and book history., 6, Paperback / softback. New. Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundation in the nineteenth century., 6<

2002, ISBN: 0415228697

[EAN: 9780415228695], Neubuch, [PU: Taylor & Francis], ART HISTORY GENERAL PROFESSIONAL FOLLOW HISTORIAN VASARI HENRI HOLDS REGNAULT HISTORY´S PROFESSIONALIZATION HISTORYS ROYAL ACADEMY P… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780415228695], Neubuch, [PU: Taylor & Francis], ART HISTORY GENERAL PROFESSIONAL FOLLOW HISTORIAN VASARI HENRI HOLDS REGNAULT HISTORY´S PROFESSIONALIZATION HISTORYS ROYAL ACADEMY PHOTOGRAPHY PERSONA MODERN TIMELESS ERWIN SUPERIMPOSE PANOFSKY HISTORIOGRAPHY DES BEAU, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photograph., Books<

ISBN: 9780415228695

New. Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and… Mehr…

New. Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions, considering their impact on movements such as modernism; their role in conveying or denying legitimacy; and their impact on defining the parameters of the discipline., 6<

2002, ISBN: 9780415228695

Routledge, 2002-08-23. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!, Routledge, 2002-08-23, 6