Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange

by Rebecca Colesworthy

From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions have the authority to give?

Marshalling wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Returning the Gift argues that these questions centrally shaped literary modernism. The book begins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778589
• ISBN13: 9780198778585
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"