Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe

by Anna Brickhouse

Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that became an acute national fantasy: elsewhere catastrophe,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198914148
• ISBN13: 9780198914143
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages