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Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dead Astronauts'

Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dead Astronauts'

Palmer, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, Book 72

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1835538045
ISBN13: 9781835538043
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 2 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels, through novels of the countercultural sixties, feminist interventions, and recent revisions and critiques. As empire fades, ideas of sexuality shift, and attitudes to nature and to the city change, so apocalyptic fictions change. The individual subject is asserted, immolated, transcended, abandoned; individual deaths are substituted for mass death; death is faked or erased. The subjects and survivors of catastrophe set about re-establishing civilization, or they abandon it, finding new ways of being and of dying; they respond to it when it comes from outside, as an invasion, or they are immersed in it, as it shifts from being an event to being a condition. They flee the city for the country, or accept that they must draw on the energies of the world city in order to survive.

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