Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s-1990s [electronic resource] : Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire /
Mousoutzanis, A.author.
Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Apocalypse, technoscience, empire; Apocalypse: modernity, fin de siècle, postmodernism; Technoscience and empire; Part I: Technoscience; 1 When Time Shall Be No More: Entropy, Degeneration, History; Energy watersheds and phase changes: Jeremy Rifkin/Henry Adams; The death of the sun; Degeneration, entropy and technocultural shock; ''After the end'': entropy, radioactivity, information; 2 The Eternal Return of Chaos; Period 1: the history of chaos and the chaos of history; Bifurcation 1: two branches, two apocalypses
Period 2: information overloadBifurcation 2: two simulacra; Period 3: back to the end - chaos theory and empire; Part II: Empire; 3 Dusk of the Nations: Century''s End and Imperial Crisis; ''Invisible bacteria'': technoscience and biopower; ''Empire over matter'': apocalypse and reverse colonisation; ''Cyber-trauma'': alien abduction and technocultural shock; ''The ultimate cybernetic disease'': AIDS, bodies, machines; 4 Terminal Bodies: New Men and Women for the ''00s; ''From outer space to inner space'': eugenics and biogenetics; ''Lilith''s children'': mothering the future
Conclusion: Post-Millennial ApocalypseBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
America-Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.