Fictions of state : culture and credit in Britain, 1694-1994 /

Fictions of state : culture and credit in Britain, 1694-1994 /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Subjects:	English fiction > History and criticism. Economics in literature. Literature and state > Great Britain. Popular culture > Great Britain. Credit > Great Britain. Debt in literature. Great Britain > Economic conditions. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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