The Literary Gift in Early America by Faflik, David

The Literary Gift in Early America

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange,...
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Author: David Faflik
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Language: English
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The Literary Gift in Early America by Faflik, David

The Literary Gift in Early America

€166,67

The Literary Gift in Early America

€166,67
Author: David Faflik
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of literary objects in circulation across the diverse societies, economies, and cultures of the Americas, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

From the gifting of a Narragansett grammar as a foundational event in the project of colonization in New England, to the use of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack in the classrooms of an independent Brazil, to Catharine Maria Sedgwick's fictions framing literature as the object of middle-class gifting, chapters offer an interdisciplinary perspective on book history and literary history in the United States and beyond. Faflik contends that it is because of the wild ways in which books circulated as gifts that works by Franklin, New England colonist Roger Williams, Sedgwick, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson resisted the generic conventions of their day. Offering a revisionist account of how literary meaning is made, The Literary Gift in Early America calls for closer attention to the historical patterns of literary give and take in the Americas.



Author: David Faflik
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781503639676

About the Author
David Faflik is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. His previous books include Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (2020).

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