Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf
K. Simpson
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Paperback. This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culturethrough a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance inher modernist aesthetics." Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.
This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349546015
SKU
V9781349546015
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99-15
About K. Simpson
KATHRYN SIMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK, teaching courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and film. Her research interests focus on women's modernist writing and she has published on Woolf, H.D. and Katherine Mansfield.
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