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" Imagining apocalypse : "
edited by David Seed.
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555114
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David Seed
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Imagining apocalypse : : studies in cultural crisis\ edited by David Seed.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan,, 2000.
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(ix, 240 pages)
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1137076577
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: 1349648973
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: 9781137076571
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: 9781349622474
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: 9781349648955
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: 9781349648979
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: Aspects of Apocalypse / David Seed -- 2. The Tales of the Last Days, 1805-3794 / I.F. Clarke -- 3. The End of The Ages / Stephen R.L. Clark -- 4. Rewriting the Christian Apocalypse as a Science-Fictional Event / Edward James -- 5. Edwardian Awakenings: H.G. Wells's Apocalyptic Romances (1898-1915) / Patrick Parrinder -- 6. Acts of God / Robert Crossley -- 7. The Dawn of the Atomic Age / David Seed -- 8. Silo Psychosis: Diagnosing America's Nuclear Anxieties Through Narrative Imagery / Charles E. Gannon -- 9. Pocket Apocalypse: American Survivalist Fictions from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man / George Slusser.
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| Abstract
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This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to"This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to"This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to",,,,,"This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethThis volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies.This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethThis volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies.This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethThis volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies.Read less
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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