Fictions of State
Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2019
304 pages
978-1-5017-1179-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Fictions of State
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Debt, Fetishism, and Empire: A Postmodern Preamble
- 2 The Assets of Lilliput (1694-1763)
- 3 Upon Daedalian Wings (1750-1832)
- 4 Banking on Novels (1800-1914)
- 5 Consuming Modernisms, Phallic Mothers (1900-1945)
- 6 Postindustrial, Postcolonial, Postmodern: "Anarchy in the U.K" (1945-1994)
- Works Cited
- Index
