 | Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century; Fables Eng; 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... Laura Brown is John Wendell Anderson Professor and Chair of the English Department at Cornell University. She is author, most recently, of Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature , also from Cornell. |
