The Literary Gift in Early America James R. Cook ' (From the Introduction)

' (From the Introduction)

Radclyffe Hall

author of Between the Sign and the Gaze

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The Literary Gift in Early America James R. Cook ' (From the Introduction)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