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Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture

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  • Editor: John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
John Hay, Jared Hickman, Mark Noble, Lindsey Michael Banco, Adam Spry, Lindsay DiCuirci, Christen Mucher, Mark Alan Mattes, Melissa Gniadek, Gordon Fraser, Timothy Donahue, Jane Fisher, Alastair Morrison, Jacqueline Foertsch, Timothy Parrish, Jennifer Ashton, Heather J. Hicks, Kevin M. Modestino, Autumn Womack, Nick Yablon, Ursula K. Heise, Frances McDonald, Claire P. Curtis, Irene Visser, Matthew A. Taylor
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  • Date Published: February 2021
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108493840

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  • The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.

    • Specifically addresses many key texts and periods commonly covered in undergraduate survey courses
    • Organized according both to key aspects of Apocalypse and to notable periods in American literary history
    • Offers twenty-five essays on many different periods and aspects of American literary history
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    • Date Published: February 2021
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108493840
    • length: 350 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 160 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.63kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    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
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  • Editor

    John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    John Hay is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he specializes in nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (2017) and a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

    Contributors

    John Hay, Jared Hickman, Mark Noble, Lindsey Michael Banco, Adam Spry, Lindsay DiCuirci, Christen Mucher, Mark Alan Mattes, Melissa Gniadek, Gordon Fraser, Timothy Donahue, Jane Fisher, Alastair Morrison, Jacqueline Foertsch, Timothy Parrish, Jennifer Ashton, Heather J. Hicks, Kevin M. Modestino, Autumn Womack, Nick Yablon, Ursula K. Heise, Frances McDonald, Claire P. Curtis, Irene Visser, Matthew A. Taylor

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