Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture

Herausgeber: Hay, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the theme of apocalypse in America, from the colonial era to the present. Imagining the end of the world has always been a popular pastime, especially in America.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493840
• ISBN-10: 110849384X
• Artikelnr.: 60007952

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The United States of apocalypse John Hay
Part I. America as Apocalypse: 1. The apocalypse of settler colonialism and the case for the americocene Jared Hickman
2. Apocalyptic violence in visual media Mark Noble
3. Revelation, secret knowledge, and 9/11 conspiracy theory Lindsey Michael Banco
4. Decolonial eschatologies of native American literatures Adam Spry
Part II. American Apocalypse in (and out of) History: 5. The puritans prepare for the second coming Lindsay DiCuirci
6. The American revolution as extinction and rebirth Christen Mucher
7. Race, American enlightenment, and the end times Mark Alan Mattes
8. Sentimental premonitions and antebellum spectacle Melissa Gniadek
9. Antebellum anticipations of annihilation Gordon Fraser
10. The apocalyptic fury of the civil war Timothy Donahue
11. Apocalyptic form in the American Fin de Siècle Jane Fisher
12. The ruins of American modernism Alastair Morrison
13. Mutually assured destruction in cold war/postwar America Jacqueline Foertsch
14. Postmodern American literature at the end of history Timothy Parrish
15. Ecology, ethics, and the apocalyptic lyric in recent American poetry Jennifer Ashton
16. Disaster response in post-2000 American apocalyptic fiction Heather J. Hicks
Part III. Varieties of Apocalyptic Experience: 17. New history for a new earth Kevin M. Modestino
18. W. E. B. Du Bois's apocalyptic ambivalence Autumn Womack
19. The empty cities of urban apocalypse Nick Yablon
20. The planetary futures of eco-apocalypse Ursula K. Heise
21. The last laughs of doomsday humor Frances McDonald
22. The catastrophic end-games of young adult literature Claire P. Curtis
23. Apocalyptic trauma and the politics of mourning a world Irene Visser
24. Posthuman postapocalypse Matthew A. Taylor
Further reading.