Fictions of State : : Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694–1994 /

Fictions of State : : Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694–1994 / / Patrick Brantlinger.

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In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of "public credit," from the 1694 founding of the Bank of England to the present. He draws on literary texts ranging from Augustan satire such as Gulliver's Travels to postmod...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Brantlinger, Patrick,
MitwirkendeR:
Brantlinger, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Debt, Fetishism, and Empire: A Postmodem Preamble
  • 2. The Assets of Lilliput (1694-1763)
  • 3. Upon Daedalian Wings (1750-1832)
  • 4. Banking on Novels (1800-1914
  • 5. Consuming Modernisms, Phallic Mothers (1900-1945)
  • 6. Postindustrial, Postcolonial, Postmodem: "Anarchy in the U.K" (1945-1994)
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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