Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf

Simpson, K.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-10-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403997067

DOI: 10.1057/9780230228436

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 200