The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England....Pages 15-35
Charity Education and the Spectacle of “Christian Entertainment”....Pages 37-54
Debt without Redemption in a World of “Impossible Exchange”: Samuel Richardson and Philanthropy....Pages 55-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
’Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift....Pages 79-106
The Gift of an Education: Sarah Trimmer’s Oeconomy of Charity and the Sunday School Movement....Pages 107-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Obligation, Coercion, and Economy: The Deed of Trust in Congreve’s The Way of the World ....Pages 125-141
The Erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Novel....Pages 143-158
Fictions of the Gift in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall ....Pages 159-175
The Nation, the Gift, and the Market in The Wanderer ....Pages 177-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Josiah Wedgwood’s Goodwill Marketing....Pages 197-213
Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page’s “Secret History”....Pages 215-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-263