 | Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694–1994 Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; Economics in literature; Literature and state -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Popular culture -- Great Britain; Credit -- Great Britain; Debt in literature; 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. Patrick Brantlinger is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University. He is also the author of Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Cultures as Social Decay and Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism , both from Cornell. |
