Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf
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Author | : K. Simpson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-10-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230228436 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230228437 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf by : K. Simpson
Book excerpt: 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.