Table of Contents for The Literary Gift in Early America

The Literary Gift in Early America
David Faflik

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.Roger Williams's Key to the Literatures of Colonial Exchange

2.Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Gift Diplomacy

3.Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Distributional Redundancies

4.Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Presence

5.Emily Dickinson and the Futures of the Gift

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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