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The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks the economic history of American literature, demonstrating that the practices of patronage and corporate-based philanthropy shaped the literary market . Francesca Sawaya examines the importance of patronage and philanthropy on major post-bellum authors' careers and fiction.

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"A fresh, original, and important revisionist literary history. Francesca Sawaya explores the ways that corporate-based philanthropy emerges from, without fully displacing, older forms of cultural sponsorship like patronage. By discussing how this new philanthropy intersects with the careers of key turn-of the-century writers and is manifested in some of the major fictions by these writers, Sawaya tells a new story about this period-and about American literary history generally-that is anchored in illuminating rereadings of fictional texts." * Kenneth W. Warren, University of Chicago *

The Difficult Art of Giving

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 21 August 2014
      ISBN-13 9780812246308
      978-0812246308
      ISBN-10 0812246306

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      Book Synopsis
      The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks the economic history of American literature, demonstrating that the practices of patronage and corporate-based philanthropy shaped the literary market . Francesca Sawaya examines the importance of patronage and philanthropy on major post-bellum authors' careers and fiction.

      Trade Review
      "A fresh, original, and important revisionist literary history. Francesca Sawaya explores the ways that corporate-based philanthropy emerges from, without fully displacing, older forms of cultural sponsorship like patronage. By discussing how this new philanthropy intersects with the careers of key turn-of the-century writers and is manifested in some of the major fictions by these writers, Sawaya tells a new story about this period-and about American literary history generally-that is anchored in illuminating rereadings of fictional texts." * Kenneth W. Warren, University of Chicago *

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