Woolf’s Weighty Gifts: The Measure of Modernist Autonomy

This paper argues that Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) provides a critical counterpoint to a cluster of recent discourses on the gift, autonomy, and the changing nature of labor in the contemporary creative economy. From Lewis Hyde’s best-selling The Gift to neo-Marxist accounts of post-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rebecca Colesworthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New York City College of Technology 2017-07-01
Series:NANO
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Online Access:https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue11/Woolf-s-Weighty-Gifts-The-Measure-of-Modernist-Autonomy