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THE ETHIC OF THE GIFT IN GEORGE ELIOT'S DANIEL DERONDA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2006

Margueritte Murphy
Margueritte Murphy
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Bentley College
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Abstract

In short, this [the exchange of gifts] represents an intermingling. Souls are mixed with things; things with souls. Lives are mingled together, and this is how, among persons and things so intermingled, each emerges from their own sphere and mixes together. This is precisely what contract and exchange are.

—Marcel Mauss, The Gift

Type
Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 189 - 207
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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