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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 m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.