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Fables of Modernity - Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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Fables of Modernity - Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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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."
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