The Tyranny of Gift Giving: The Politics of Generosity in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Sir George Ellison.

The author discusses the relationship between generosity and obligation of gift-giving in England in the eighteenth-century novels "Millenium Hall" and "Sir George Ellison," both by Sarah Scott. Gift-giving was a reflection of social and economic concerns of the period and could be in the form of ch...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 291 - 307
Autor principal: McGonegal, Julie
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Toronto Press Spring2007
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