Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis

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