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050 00 $aPN56.N83$bC67 2008
100 1 $aCordle, Daniel.
245 10 $aStates of suspense :$bthe nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose /$cDaniel Cordle.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press :$bDistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,$c2008.
300 $a172 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: states of suspense -- The nuclear age -- The literatures of the nuclear age: fictions of disaster and anxiety -- The sword of Damocles: the psychology and culture of vulnerability -- Nuclear environments -- Empty cities: nuclear war and the end of civilization -- Shadows on the hearth: the threatened domestic spaces of nuclear literature -- The fragile planet: articulating global anxieties -- Going underground and digging in: the politics of nuclear literature -- Conclusion and epilogue: the legacies of the first atomic age -- Appendix: bomb drills in New York 1951-61.
520 1 $a"When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it not only signalled the final phase of the Second World War, it also precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of Suspense is about the representation of this nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It will also be of interest to those more generally intrigued by the cultural fallout of the nuclear age."--Jacket.
650 0 $aNuclear warfare and literature.
650 0 $aAtomic bomb in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
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