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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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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