Fables of Modernity

by Laura Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437563
• ISBN13: 9780801437564
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher