Fin-de-siècle fictions 1890s - 1990s ; apocalypse, technoscience, empire
H.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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke
Palgrave MacMillan
2014
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1800-1900
> Geschichte 1890-2000
> English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism
> English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism
> Apocalypse in literature
> Terrorism in literature
> Nuclear warfare in literature
> Imperialismus
> Technologie
> Englisch
> Weltuntergang
> Dekadenzliteratur
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | H.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 |
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| Beschreibung: | IX, 258 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781137263650 978-1-137-26365-0 |