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Fables of Modernity : Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century / Laura S. Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 7 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501722349
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/355 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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