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001 2012276673
003 DLC
005 20150116084727.0
008 140815s2014 enka b 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2012276673
016 7 $a016708142$2Uk
020 $a9781137263650
020 $a1137263652
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn869726397
040 $aERASA$beng$cERASA$erda$dBDX$dBTCTA$dUKMGB$dYDXCP$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dIUL$dCOO$dNGU$dSTF$dNKM$dMUU$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPR881$b.M68 2014
082 04 $a800
100 1 $aMousoutzanis, Aristeidis,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFin-de-siècle fictions, 1890s/1990s :$bapocalypse, technoscience, empire /$cAris Mousoutzanis.
246 30 $aApocalypse, technoscience, empire
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$bNew York, NY :$bPalgrave MacMillan$c2014.
300 $aix, 258 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 228-251) and index.
520 8 $aH.G. Wells wanted his epitaph to be 'God damn you all, I told you so'. But how accurate were his predictions of industrial warfare and global conflict, especially as his descriptions of an aerial bombing of New York in War in the Air has been compared to the terrorist attacks of 9/11? Did the late Victorians really 'discover the future' or did the 1990s simply recycle the 1890s? At the aftermath of 2012, this book is 'looking backward' and identifies startling connections between the apocalyptic fantasies of the last two centuries' ends and traces intriguing links between Nietzsche and chaos theory, Dracula and The X-Files, the Borg Queen and H. Rider Haggard's Ayesha, among others.
505 0 $aWhen time shall be no more : entropy, degeneration, history -- The eternal return of chaos -- Dusk of the nations : century's end and Imperial Crisis -- Terminal bodies : new men and women for the '00s.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aApocalypse in literature.
650 0 $aTerrorism in literature.
650 0 $aNuclear warfare in literature.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2012276673-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2012276673-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2012276673-t.html