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The endings of epochs

Title
The endings of epochs / edited by Laurel Brake for the English Association.
Publication
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Brake, Laurel, 1941-
  • Wilcox, Helen
  • McMullan, Gordon, 1962-
  • Bristow, Joseph
  • Beetham, Margaret, 1919-
  • Smith, Penny, 1955-
  • Green, Jeremy
  • English Association.
Description
x, 149 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"These specially commissioned new essays consider a variety of imaginative articulations of the endings of epochs, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Their subjects are as diverse as Milton's twin-vision of banishment and beginning, Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' and DeLillo's version of the death of the author in Mao II." "The essays treat drama, epic, poetry, the periodical press, fiction, and current theory; principal authors include Milton, An Collins, Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry James, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Symons, Olive Schreiner, Angela Carter, bell hooks, Donna Haraway, Alasdair Gray, Martin Amis, Shena Mackay, and Don DeLillo."--Jacket
Series Statement
Essays and studies, 1995, 0071-1357 ; vol. 48
Uniform Title
Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 48.
Subject
  • Milton, John, 1608-1674
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Gray, Alasdair
  • Amis, Martin
  • Mackay, Shena
  • DeLillo, Don
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Yellow book (London, England)
  • Lanark (Gray, Alasdair)
  • Paradise lost (Milton, John)
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism
  • Millennialism in literature
  • Change in literature
  • Closure (Rhetoric)
  • Feminism and literature
  • 18.05 English literature
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • Apocalyptic literature
  • Change in literature
  • English literature
  • Feminism and literature
  • Millennialism in literature
  • Letterkunde
  • Amerikaans
  • Engels
  • Derde millennium
  • Eeuwwisselingen
  • End of the world in literature
  • Decadence (Literary movement)
  • Millénarisme dans la littérature
  • Fin du monde > Dans la littérature
  • Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique
  • Décadentisme > Dans la littérature
Genre/Form
  • Essay
  • essays.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Essays
  • Essays.
  • Essais.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Is this the end of this new glorious world? : Paradise lost and the beginning of the end / Helen Wilcox -- Shakespeare and the end of history / Gordon McMullan -- Endgames : the politics of The yellow book or, decadence, gender, and the new journalism / Laurel Brake -- Sterile ecstasies : the perversity of the decadent movement / Joseph Bristow -- Feminism and the end of eras: apocalypse and utopia / Margaret Beetham -- Hell innit : the millennium in Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Martin Amis's London fields, and Shena Mackay's Dunedin / Penny Smith -- Last days : millennial hysteria in Don DeLillo's Mao II / Jeremy Green.
ISBN
  • 0859914747
  • 9780859914741
LCCN
96115240
OCLC
  • ocm34048575
  • 34048575
  • SCSB-14536246
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library