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Fictions of State : Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994

In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of ""public credit, "" from the 1694 founding of the Bank of England to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brantlinger, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments / Brantlinger, Patrick
  • 1. Debt, Fetishism, and Empire: A Postmodem Preamble
  • 2. The Assets of Lilliput (1694-1763)
  • 3. Upon Daedalian Wings (1750-1832)
  • 4. Banking on Novels (1800-1914
  • 5. Consuming Modernisms, Phallic Mothers (1900-1945)
  • 6. Postindustrial, Postcolonial, Postmodem: "Anarchy in the U.K" (1945-1994)
  • Works Cited
  • Index