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Returning the Gift

by Rebecca Colesworthy

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First published: 2018 1 language ISBN: 9780198778585
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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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Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941 Rhys, jean, 1894-1979 Stein, gertrude, 1874-1946 H. d. (hilda doolittle), 1886-1961 Gifts Modernism (literature) Criticism and interpretation Social aspects Gifts in literature

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