{"product_id":"the-literary-gift-in-early-america-hardback-9781503639676","title":"The Literary Gift in Early America (Hardback) 9781503639676","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Literary Gift in Early America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Faflik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503639676\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages, 9 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Faflik dislodges what we think we know about the terms 'gift' and 'book' beyond \u003ci\u003egift books\u003c\/i\u003e. He explores these themes through a broad and interesting set of literary and cultural material, with fresh and exciting research on understudied texts.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Jonathan Senchyne, University of Wisconsin-Madison \"This is an elegant, insightful, innovative, and sustained argument for the importance of gifting as a foundational circulatory mode for literature before modernism. Gifting, far from being a more satisfying economy apart from capitalist exchanges, emerges as complicated and fraught.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Eliza Richards, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003ePoor Richard's Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Gift in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e calls for closer attention to the historical patterns of literary give and take in the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Roger Williams's \u003ci\u003eKey\u003c\/i\u003e to the Literatures of Colonial Exchange\u003cbr\u003e  2. Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Gift Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e  3. Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Distributional Redundancies\u003cbr\u003e  4. Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Presence\u003cbr\u003e  5. Emily Dickinson and the Futures of the Gift\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610710012184,"sku":"9781503639676","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-literary-gift-in-early-america-hardback-9781503639676","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}