LEADER 03849nam 2200541 450 001 9910793770803321 005 20230421034946.0 010 $a1-5017-1180-6 010 $a1-5017-1179-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501711794 035 $a(CKB)4100000008707046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5915570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965076 035 $a(OCoLC)1041065100 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77065 035 $a(DE-B1597)535272 035 $a(OCoLC)1127227509 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501711794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5965076 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008707046 100 $a20191127d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFictions of state $eculture and credit in Britain, 1694-1994 /$fPatrick Brantlinger 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[1996] 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-3190-5 311 $a0-8014-8287-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments /$rBrantlinger, Patrick --$t1. Debt, Fetishism, and Empire: A Postmodem Preamble --$t2. The Assets of Lilliput (1694-1763) --$t3. Upon Daedalian Wings (1750-1832) --$t4. Banking on Novels (1800-1914 --$t5. Consuming Modernisms, Phallic Mothers (1900-1945) --$t6. Postindustrial, Postcolonial, Postmodem: "Anarchy in the U.K" (1945-1994) --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. He draws on literary texts ranging from Augustan satire such as Gulliver's Travels to postmodern satire such as Martin Amis's Money: A Suicide Note. All critique the misrecognition of public credit as wealth. The economic foundations of modern nation-states involved national debt, public credit, and paper money. Brantlinger traces the emergence of modern, imperial Great Britain from those foundations. He analyzes the process whereby nationalism, both the cause and the result of wars and imperial expansion, multiplied national debt and produced crises of public credit resolved only through more nationalism and war. During the first half of the eighteenth century, conservatives attacked public credit as fetishistic and characterized national debt as alchemical. From the 1850's, the stabilizing theories of public credit authored by David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Thornton, and others, helped initiate the first "social science" economics. In the nineteenth century, literary criticism both paralleled and questioned early capitalist discourse on public credit and nationalism, while the Victorian novel refigured debt as the individual, private credit and debt. During the era of high modernism and Keynesian economics, the notion of high culture as genuine value recast the debate over money and national indebtedness. Brantlinger relates this cultural-historical trajectory to Marxist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories about the decline of the European empires after World War II, the global debt crisis, and the weakening of western nation-states in the postmodern era. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.009 700 $aBrantlinger$b Patrick$f1941-$0545092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793770803321 996 $aFictions of state$93715903 997 $aUNINA