Title Fables of modernity : literature and culture in the English eighteenth century / Laura Brown

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations Contents The metropolis : the fable of the city sewer -- Imperial fate : the fable of torrents and oceans -- Finance : the fable of lady credit -- Capitalism : fables of a new world -- Spectacles of cultural contact : the fable of the native prince -- the orangutang, the lap dog, and the parrot : the fable of the nonhuman being Summary 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 modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference-the woman and the "native" or non-European. The collective narratives that Brown finds in the print culture of the period engage such prominent phenomena as the city sewer, trade and shipping, the stock market, the commercial printing industry, the "native" visitor to London, and the household pet. In connecting imagination and history through the category of the cultural fable, Brown illuminates the nature of modern experience in the growing metropolitan centers, the national consequences of global expansion, the volatility of credit, the transforming effects of capital, and the domestic consequences of colonialism and slavery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Fables, English -- History and criticism Imperialism in literature. Animals in literature. Women in literature. Fables, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism Animals in literature Civilization English literature Fables, English Imperialism in literature Literature and history Literature and society Women in literature Letterkunde. Engels. Moderniteit. Vrouwen. Niet-westerse volken. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001001670 ISBN 9781501722349 1501722344

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