Fables of modernity : literature and culture in the English eighteenth century
"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."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801437564, 9780801488443, 0801437563, 0801488443
46616965
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