Fables of Modernity : : Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century / / Laura S. Brown.
Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: The Cultural Fable, the Experience of Modernity, and the Paradigm of Difference
- PART I: EXPANSION
- CHAPTER 1. The Metropolis: The Fable of the City Sewer
- CHAPTER 2. Imperial Fate: The Fable of Torrents and Oceans
- PART II: EXCHANGE
- CHAPTER 3. Finance: The Fable of Lady Credit
- CHAPTER 4. Capitalism: Fables of a New World
- PART III: ALTERITY
- CHAPTER 5. Spectacles of Cultural Contact: The Fable of the Native Prince
- CHAPTER 6. The Orangutang, the Lap Dog, and the Parrot: The Fable of the Nonhuman Being
- Index