Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century

✍ Scribed by Laura Brown

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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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