{"product_id":"the-literary-gift-in-early-america-9781503639676","title":"The Literary Gift in Early America","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the gifting of a Narragansett grammar as a foundational event in the project of colonization in New England, to the use of Benjamin Franklin's \u003ci\u003ePoor Richard's Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e in the classrooms of an independent Brazil, to Catharine Maria Sedgwick's fictions framing literature as the object of middle-class gifting, chapters offer an interdisciplinary perspective on book history and literary history in the United States and beyond. Faflik contends that it is because of the wild ways in which books circulated as gifts that works by Franklin, New England colonist Roger Williams, Sedgwick, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson resisted the generic conventions of their day. Offering a revisionist account of how literary meaning is made, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Gift in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e calls for closer attention to the historical patterns of literary give and take in the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Faflik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503639676","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43446846324873,"sku":"9781503639676","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a99e09a1-912b-4e43-97f8-705f2f7dd54a.jpg?v=1741683200","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-literary-gift-in-early-america-9781503639676","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}