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Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
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December 22, 2006|
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Alison V. Scott. Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature 1580-1628.
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006. 303 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8386-4082-6.
Gifts, like lunches, do not come free or unencumbered. Alison Scott's Selfish Gifts starts from this premise, questioning, along with Derrida, whether something that is exchanged can ever be said to be given with no expectation of return. Her purposes are twofold: to investigate the political environment of the Elizabeth and early Stuart courts and the nature of patronage ...
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