The endings of epochs
By: edited by Laurel Brake for the English Association.
Contributors: Brake, Laurel, 1941-; English Association.
Series: Essays and studies, 1995 -- vol. 48; Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) -- v. 48.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism; Millennialism in literature; Change in literature; Closure (Rhetoric)
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Is this the end of this new glorious world? : Paradise lost and the beginning of the end -- Helen Wilcox; title: Shakespeare and the end of history -- Gordon McMullan; title: Endgames : the politics of The yellow book or, decadence, gender, and the new journalism -- Laurel Brake; title: Sterile ecstasies : the perversity of the decadent movement -- Joseph Bristow; title: Feminism and the end of eras: apocalypse and utopia -- Margaret Beetham; title: Hell innit : the millennium in Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Martin Amis's London fields, and Shena Mackay's Dunedin -- Penny Smith; title: Last days : millennial hysteria in Don DeLillo's Mao II-- Jeremy Green.