The first last man: Mary Shelley and the postapocalyptic imagination
"By reading Mary Shelley's pandemic novel The Last Man and gothic romance "The Invisible Girl" against the background of plague literature and international thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, this book reveals how she shaped the classics of modern existentialism and dystopi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shelley, Mary 1797-1851, The last man
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| Further subjects: | B
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Criticism and interpretation
B Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) Last man B Survival in literature B Existentialism in literature B Apocalypse in literature B Pandemics in literature B Plague in literature |
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| Summary: | "By reading Mary Shelley's pandemic novel The Last Man and gothic romance "The Invisible Girl" against the background of plague literature and international thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, this book reveals how she shaped the classics of modern existentialism and dystopian political science fiction from H. G. Wells to Emily St. John Mandel. It is this Shelleyan literary tradition that has generated modern postapocalyptic political thought, which uses writing and other art to reflect upon the global existential question: What is to be done after a massive, human-made disaster?"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Physical Description: | ix, 207 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-5402-0 978-0-8122-9861-1 |
