Fables of Modernity - Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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... Zusammenfassung 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...

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• Authors: Laura Brown, Laura (Professor of English Brown, Laura S Brown, Laura S. Brown, BROWN LAURA PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780801437564
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3756-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries