John Hay

Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific texts, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature reveals that US authors who enthusiastically celebrated the myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land also frequently resorted to speculations about the annihilation of civilizations, past and future. By examining such postapocalyptic fantasies, this study recovers an antebellum rhetoric untethered to claims for historical exceptionalism - a patriotic rhetoric that celebrates America while denying the United States a unique position outside of world history. As the scientific field of natural history produced new theories regarding biological extinction, geological transformation, and environmental collapse, American writers responded with wild visions of the ancient past and the distant future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108304825
• Artikelnr.: 49335521

Autorenporträt

Saucerian Publisher was founded with the mission of promoting books in Ufology, Paranormal , and the Occult. Our vision is to preserve the legacy of literary history by reprint editions of books which have already been exhausted or are difficult to obtain. Our goal is to help readers, educators and researchers by bringing back original publications that are difficult to find at reasonable price, while preserving the legacy of universal knowledge. Very rare UFO-mation ,edition! This is a rare set of UFO-mation issues published by New York Saucer Information Bureau, between 1958- 59. These are VERY hard to come across these days. We decided to published them as a collected edition as a set to make it easier for someone to add them to their flying saucer / UFO collection. This title is an authentic reproduction of the original printed text in shades of gray. THIS IS NOT A COMPLETED COLLECTIONS. SOME ISSUES ARE MISSING. IMPORTANT: Despite the fact that we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, the present reproduction may have minor errors beyond our control like: missing and blurred pages, poor pictures and readers' pencil markings from the original scanned copy. HOWEVER, because this book is culturally important, we have made available as part of our commitment to protect, preserve and promote knowledge in the world. These issues are an authentic reproduction of the issues of the UFO-mation for the years: 1958-1959. Great, but unpretentious, these issues are extraordinarily rare symbols by themselves of what was going on in those early years of the modern UFO era. This collected edition has the following issues of UFO-mation : Vol. I--#3 (May 7th, April 15 th, April 21 st, 1958); Vol 1 No 1 (Winter Issue); Vol 1, No 2 (Spring Issue); Vol 1 No 3 (Summer Issue); Vol 1 No 4 (Fall Issue, 1959).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The American Noah
2. Narratives of extinction and the last man
3. The magnificent mound builders
4. History unearthed
5. Contact at Ktaadn
6. The revolutionary ruins of the New West
7. Postapocalyptic postscript.