Apocalypse in Crisis - Fiction From ''The War of the Worlds'' to ''Dead Astronauts''

Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination of apocalypse from postwar 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 change, so apocalyptic fictions change. Apocalypse, here, is imagined not as an event but as a condition.

About the author

Christopher Palmer is a Research Associate in the School of English at La Trobe University.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Palmer, Christopher (School of English Palmer
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781835538043
• ISBN: 978-1-83553-804-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies