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 a...(展开全部)

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity. Before t...(展开全部)

Xueping Zhong is Assistant Professor in the Department of German/Russian/Asian Languages at Tufts University.

This book brings together an international body of scholars working on eighteenth-century botany within the context of imperial expansion. The eighteenth century saw widespread exploration, a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens, taxonomic breakthroughs, and horticultural experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new development...(展开全部)