Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)

Criticism | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

by Laura Brown. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 273. $39.95 cloth.

It has been more than a decade since the publication of the pivotal essay collection edited by Laura Brown and Felicity Nussbaum, The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature (New York: Methuen, 1987). Yet anyone who has attended a recent meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies or who has logged on to the C18-L listserv could discern rather quickly that the canon wars rage on here. Laura Brown's latest contribution to the field ...

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