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Preface: From Crux to Critique PART I: CANNIBALIZING HISTORY: THE PROBLEM OF METALEPSIS The Global Making of the British Eighteenth Century When Fingal Lived and Ossian Sang: Eighteenth-Century Origins PART II: GLOBAL PALIMPSESTS: POSTCOLONIAL AFFILIATIONS Leading History by the Nose: Reading Origins in Laurence Sterne and Salman Rushdie Imperial Blues: Reading Nation and Empire in John Gay and Wole Soyinka Rutherford's Travels: The Palimpsest of Culture in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage PART III: IMMANENT CRITIQUE: THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS RESOURCE Swift's Immanent Critique of Colonial Modernity Johnson's Immanent Critique of Imperial Nationalism Epilogue: Toward a Critical Reappropriation of Modernity