Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Roger Williams’s Key to the Literatures of Colonial Exchange 22
6. 2 Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Gift Diplomacy 64
7. 3 Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Distributional Redundancies 116
8. 4 Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Presence 159
9. 5 Emily Dickinson and the Futures of the Gift 200
10. Notes 239
11. Bibliography 277
12. Index 305