The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England

The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England
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Download or read book The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England written by Linda Zionkowski and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity.


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