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245 14 a| The literary gift in early Americah| [electronic resource] /c| David Faflik.;

260 a| Stanford, California :b| Stanford University Press,c| 2025.;

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300 a| pages cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Roger Williams's key to the literatures of colonial exchange -- Benjamin Franklin and the politics of gift diplomacy -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's distributional redundancies -- Walt Whitman and the poetry of presence -- Emily Dickinson and the futures of the gift.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The literary gift in early America / David Faflik.

Author/creator	Faflik, David, 1972-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025.
Description	pages cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Books and reading--United States. --History. Gifts--Social aspects. --United States. --History. United States--Social life and customs.

Contents	Roger Williams's key to the literatures of colonial exchange -- Benjamin Franklin and the politics of gift diplomacy -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's distributional redundancies -- Walt Whitman and the poetry of presence -- Emily Dickinson and the futures of the gift.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2024025739
ISBN	9781503639676 (cloth)
ISBN	(ebook)

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