Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis

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Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Aspects of Apocalypse....Pages 1-14 The Tales of the Last Days, 1805–3794....Pages 15-26 The End of The Ages....Pages 27-44 Rewriting the Christian Apocalypse as a Science-Fictional Event....Pages 45-61 Edwardian Awakenings: H. G. Wells’s Apocalyptic Romances (1898–1915)....Pages 62-74 Acts of God....Pages 75-87 The Dawn of the Atomic Age....Pages 88-102 Silo Psychosis: Diagnosing America’s Nuclear Anxieties Through Narrative Imagery....Pages 103-117 Pocket Apocalypse: American Survivalist Fictions from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man....Pages 118-135 ‘An Unrehearsed Theatre of Technology’: Oedipalization and Vision in Ballard’s Crash....Pages 136-150 Disguising Doom: A Study of the Linguistic Features of Audience Manipulation in Michael Moorcock’s The Eternal Champion....Pages 151-165 Storm, Whirlwind and Earthquake: Apocalypse and the African-American Novel....Pages 166-180 Stylish Apocalypse: Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu Trilogy....Pages 181-198 Jews and Independence Day, Women and Independence Day: Science Fiction Apocalypse Now Evokes Feminism and Nazism....Pages 199-214 Future/Present: The End of Science Fiction....Pages 215-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-240