{"product_id":"the-difficult-art-of-giving-9780812246308","title":"The Difficult Art of Giving","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405723967831,"sku":"9780812246308","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246308.jpg?v=1730493397","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-difficult-art-of-giving-9780812246308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}