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Selfish gifts : the politics of exchange and English courtly literature, 1580-1628

Title
  1. Selfish gifts : the politics of exchange and English courtly literature, 1580-1628 / Alison V. Scott.
Published by
  1. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2006.
Author
  1. Scott, Alison V., 1974-

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Description
  1. 303 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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.
  2. 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.
Subject
  1. 1500-1700
  2. Geschichte 1580-1628
  3. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  4. Gifts in literature
  5. Gifts > Great Britain > History > 17th century
  6. Gifts > Great Britain > History > 16th century
  7. Gifts > Political aspects > Great Britain
  8. Courts and courtiers in literature
  9. Courts and courtiers
  10. Courts and courtiers in literature
  11. English literature > Early modern
  12. Gifts
  13. Gifts in literature
  14. Höfische Kultur Motiv
  15. Geschenk Motiv
  16. Geschenk > Motiv > Englische Literatur
  17. Englische Literatur > Motiv > Geschenk
  18. Hofdichtung > englische > Geschichte 16. Jh
  19. Hofdichtung > englische > Geschichte 17. Jh
  20. Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 17th century
  21. Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century
  22. Great Britain
  23. Englisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.