The post-apocalyptic novel in the twenty-first century : modernity beyond salvage /

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction,' the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks examines the most influential post-a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hicks, Heather J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Apocalypse in literature. End of the world in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Modernity Beyond Salvage
The Mother of All Apocalypses in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
'This Time Round': David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Apocalyptic Problem of Historicism
Friday at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Change and the Legacy of Robinson Crusoe in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods
'Stop! Can You Hear the Eagle Roar?': Zombie Kitsch and the Apocalyptic Sublime in Colson Whitehead's Zone One
'The Raw Materials': Petromodernity, Retromodernity, and the Bildungsroman in Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker.