1st Edition
Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Richardson, Burney, Austen
Introduction: The Novel and the Gift
1. Clarissa and the Hazards of the Gift
2. Reclaiming the Gift in Sir Charles Grandison
3. Three: The Gift and the Market in Cecilia
4. The Gift and the Nation in The Wanderer
5. Transforming the Gift in Mansfield Park
6. Trifling Presents in Emma
Conclusion: "Nothing better that I can do in the world"
Biography
Linda Zionkowski is Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature. Her publications include Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784; The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England (with Cynthia Klekar); and most recently, articles on the musical culture of Jane Austen.
