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Engaging With A Wide Range Of Texts On Gift-theory, Extending From Seneca's De Beneficiis To Derrida's Given Time, Selfish Gifts Examines The Importance Of Gift Ethics And The Rhetoric Of Honorable Giving To The Literature Of Late Elizabeth And Early Stuart England. It Demonstrates That The Idea Of The Freely Given And Disiniterested Gift Shaped The Language Of Early Modern Clientage, Along With Literary Representations Of Patrons And Patronage Systems During This Period. Selfish Gifts Examines How Early Modern Clients Moved Quickly And Strategically To Assimilate The Language Of Competition And Equality, Characteristic Of An Emerging Market Economy, Within Their Existing Discourses Of Gift Exchange, In Order To Maximize The Rewards They Might Induce From An Increasingly Diverse Group Of Patrons.--jacket. Nonreciprocation And Female Rule : The Elizabethan Context -- [a] Mutual Render, Only Me For Thee : True Gifts In Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Competitive Gifts And Strategic Exchange At The Jacobean Court -- Gifts For The Somerset Wedding -- Fortune's Darling, King's Content : The Duke Of Buckingham As Gift Problem. Alison V. Scott. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-297) An

Author

Scott, Alison V. , 1974-

Publisher

Associated University Presses

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611473186

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism