Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture

The essays in this book reflect upon the central role that the apocalypse has played in American literature and culture.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the theme of apocalypse in America, from the colonial era to the present. Imagining the end of the world has always been a popular pastime, especially in America.

Product details

• Authors: John (University of Nevada Hay, Hay John Hay
• Assisted by: John (University of Nevada Hay (Editor), John Hay (Editor), Hay John Hay (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2020
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781108493840
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49384-0
• Pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Themes in American L
• Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary theory, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Environmentalist thought and ideology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form