Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108418249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 250 str.

John Hay

Opis

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The American Noah; 2. Narratives of extinction and the last man; 3. The magnificent mound builders; 4. History unearthed; 5. Contact at Ktaadn; 6. The revolutionary ruins of the New West; 7. Postapocalyptic postscript.