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

by Christopher Palmer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800856040
• ISBN13: 9781800856042
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"