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This volume brings together essays on the cultural expression of apocalypse primarily in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on themes, writers and individual works, the contributors examine the relation 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. Among the writers covered are H.G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.
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DAVID SEED took a BA at Cambridge, MA at Leicester and Ph.D from Hull University. Since 1977 he has been a member of the English Department at Liverpool University. His previous books include The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon and The Fiction of Joseph Heller. He is the editor of Liverpool University Press Science Fiction Texts and Studies series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining Apocalypse
Book Subtitle: Studies in Cultural Crisis
Editors: David Seed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-64895-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 240
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary