The Function of Gift Exchange in Stendhal and Balzac

by Doreen Thesen

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series The Age of Revolution and Romanticism Interdisciplinary Studies

ISBN-10 0820448826

ISBN-13 9780820448824

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 14th, 2000

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 512 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 23.60 x 2.10 cms

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Twentieth-century French thinkers such as Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, and Alain Caillé (a member of the MAUSS group, an acronym for Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales) have launched repeated attacks on economism and have proposed the gift as an alternative form of social regulation. In this book, a selection of writings by Stendhal and Balzac is studied to see how gift exchange functions in these authors’ representations of France in the early nineteenth century, a period during which money emerged as a universal social mediator. The gift is studied from two main perspectives: true gift as a means of establishing a positive relationship and gift as a façade masking and facilitating commercial transactions.

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