The city's end
Subtitle: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction
By: Max Page.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300110265
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Disasters in literature; Disasters in art; Disaster films -- History and criticism; New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature; New York (N.Y.) -- In art; New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beauty and terror; title: "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad; title: Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s; title: "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s; title: Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth; title: The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11.