Fables of Modernity

Fables of Modernity
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501722349
ISBN-13 : 1501722344
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fables of Modernity by : Laura S. Brown

Download or read book Fables of Modernity written by Laura S. Brown and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Fables of Modernity Related Books

Fables of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Laura S. Brown
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural f
Fables of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Laura Brown
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This text expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. In connecting imagination and history thro
Forty Modern Fables
Language: en
Pages: 115
Authors: George Ade
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-23 - Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Forty Modern Fables" by George Ade presents readers with a collection of contemporary fables that offer witty and insightful commentary on human behavior and s
Forty Modern Fables
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: George Ade
Categories: Fables
Type: BOOK - Published: 1901 - Publisher: Copp, Clark Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Fables and Fabulists, Ancient and Modern
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Thomas Newbigging
Categories: Fables
Type: BOOK - Published: 1896 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK