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Imagining Apocalypse

Studies in Cultural Crisis

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  1. David Seed

    1. Department of English, University of Liverpool, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Aspects of Apocalypse

    • David Seed
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Tales of the Last Days, 1805–3794

    • I. F. Clarke
    Pages 15-26

  4. The End of The Ages

    • Stephen R. L. Clark
    Pages 27-44

  5. Rewriting the Christian Apocalypse as a Science-Fictional Event

    • Edward James
    Pages 45-61

  6. Edwardian Awakenings: H. G. Wells’s Apocalyptic Romances (1898–1915)

    • Patrick Parrinder
    Pages 62-74

  7. Acts of God

    • Robert Crossley
    Pages 75-87

  8. The Dawn of the Atomic Age

    • David Seed
    Pages 88-102

  9. Silo Psychosis: Diagnosing America’s Nuclear Anxieties Through Narrative Imagery

    • Charles E. Gannon
    Pages 103-117

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

    • George Slusser
    Pages 118-135

  11. ‘An Unrehearsed Theatre of Technology’: Oedipalization and Vision in Ballard’s Crash

    • Nick Davis
    Pages 136-150

  12. Disguising Doom: A Study of the Linguistic Features of Audience Manipulation in Michael Moorcock’s The Eternal Champion

    • Michael Hoey
    Pages 151-165

  13. Storm, Whirlwind and Earthquake: Apocalypse and the African-American Novel

    • A. Robert Lee
    Pages 166-180

  14. Stylish Apocalypse: Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu Trilogy

    • Val Gough
    Pages 181-198

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

    • Marleen Barr
    Pages 199-214

  16. Future/Present: The End of Science Fiction

    • Veronica Hollinger
    Pages 215-229

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 230-240
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About this book

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 their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects. Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Liverpool, UK

    David Seed

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Imagining Apocalypse

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in Cultural Crisis

  • Editors: David Seed

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07657-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22279-6Published: 14 January 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-62247-4Published: 14 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07657-1Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 240

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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