Rebecca Colesworthy is an independent scholar and acquisitions editor at SUNY Press. She has taught at Cornell University, New York University, and University at Albany, SUNY, as well as worked in the non-profit sector. She is the co-editor with Peter Nicholls of How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016), has published articles and reviews on modernism, contemporary feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell.

To read Returning the Gift is to recognize how important this web was to modernism more generally-and to be reminded how frequently the best modernist scholarship is itself web-like. Colesworthy makes the case that this is so because modernism was itself web-like, the social connecting to the aesthetic, the political to the poetic. Perhaps the best way to think with modernism is to think like modernism, and Colesworthy, in this interdisciplinary study, does just that.

• Introduction 1: Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift 2: Virginia Woolf and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality 3: Jean Rhys and the Fiction of Failed Reciprocity 4: Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Literary Genius 5: H.D. and the Promise of Queer Kinship Coda: For New York 1941 from London 1941

Rebecca Colesworthy is an independent scholar and acquisitions editor at SUNY Press. She has taught at Cornell University, New York University, and University at Albany, SUNY, as well as worked in the non-profit sector. She is the co-editor with Peter Nicholls of How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016), has published articles and reviews on modernism, contemporary feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell.

To read Returning the Gift is to recognize how important this web was to modernism more generally-and to be reminded how frequently the best modernist scholarship is itself web-like. Colesworthy makes the case that this is so because modernism was itself web-like, the social connecting to the aesthetic, the political to the poetic. Perhaps the best way to think with modernism is to think like modernism, and Colesworthy, in this interdisciplinary study, does just that.

• Introduction 1: Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift 2: Virginia Woolf and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality 3: Jean Rhys and the Fiction of Failed Reciprocity 4: Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Literary Genius 5: H.D. and the Promise of Queer Kinship Coda: For New York 1941 from London 1941

Rebecca Colesworthy is an independent scholar and acquisitions editor at SUNY Press. She has taught at Cornell University, New York University, and University at Albany, SUNY, as well as worked in the non-profit sector. She is the co-editor with Peter Nicholls of How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (2016), has published articles and reviews on modernism, contemporary feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell.

To read Returning the Gift is to recognize how important this web was to modernism more generally-and to be reminded how frequently the best modernist scholarship is itself web-like. Colesworthy makes the case that this is so because modernism was itself web-like, the social connecting to the aesthetic, the political to the poetic. Perhaps the best way to think with modernism is to think like modernism, and Colesworthy, in this interdisciplinary study, does just that.

• Introduction 1: Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift 2: Virginia Woolf and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality 3: Jean Rhys and the Fiction of Failed Reciprocity 4: Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Literary Genius 5: H.D. and the Promise of Queer Kinship Coda: For New York 1941 from London 1941