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The city's end : two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction
- Title
- The city's end : two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction / Max Page.
- Author
- Page, Max.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- 271 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 27 cm.
- Subjects
- Disaster films > History and criticism
- Disasters in literature
- New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures
- New York (N.Y.) > In art
- New York (N.Y.) > In literature
- Disasters in art
- New York (N.Y.) > Civilization
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
- Contents
- Beauty and terror -- "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad -- Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s -- "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s -- Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth -- The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-796
- ISBN
- 9780300110265 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 030011026X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007052370
- OCLC
- 189666685
- Author
- Page, Max.
- Title
- The city's end : two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction / Max Page.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-796