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Fables of modernity : literature and culture in the English eighteenth century
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- Creator
- Laura Brown
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801437563, 9781501722349, 9780801437564, 1501722344
- OCLC
- ocm46616965, ocn606609969
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The metropolis : the fable of the city sewer -- Imperial fate : the fable of torrents and oceans -- Finance : the fable of lady credit -- Capitalism : fables of a new world -- Spectacles of cultural contact : the fable of the native prince -- the orangutang, the lap dog, and the parrot : the fable of the nonhuman being
Subjects
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Fables, English -- History and criticism.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Animals in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.