Imagining Apocalypse Studies in Cultural Crisis

Name: Imagining Apocalypse Studies in Cultural Crisis
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ISBN: 9780333714522

ISBN-10: 0333714520

ISBN-13: 9780333714522

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Seed

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Bringing together essays on the cultural expression of apocalypse primarily in anglophone science fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, this text examines the relation between secular and spiritual apocalypse.

Book details

List price: $52.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Publication date: 7/9/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.66" long
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: Aspects of Apocalypse



The Tales of the Last Days, 1805-3794



The End of Ages



Re-Writing the Christian Apocalypse as a Science-Fictional Event



Edwardian Awakenings: H.G. Wells's Apocalyptic Romances (1898-1915)



Acts of God



The Dawn of the Atomic Age



Silo Psychosis: Diagnosing America's Nuclear Anxieties



Pocket Apocalypse: Survivalist Fictions from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man



"An Unrehearsed Theatre of Technology": Oedipalizations and Vision in Ballard's Crash



Disguising Doom: A Study of the Linguistic Feature of Audience Manipulation on Michael Moorcock's The Eternal Champion



Storm, Whirlwind, and Earthquake: Apocalypse and the African American Novel



Stylish Apocalypse: Storm Constantine's Wraeththu Trilogy



Jews and Independence Day, Women and Independence Day : Science Fiction Apocalypse Now Evokes Feminism and Nazism



Future/Present: The End of Science Fiction