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Approaching Apocalypse
Kevin Mills
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Description for Approaching Apocalypse
Hardback. This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 513.
This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The ... Read more
This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482379
SKU
V9781611482379
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About Kevin Mills
Kevin Mills is a lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Reviews for Approaching Apocalypse
"The lucid and sensitive readings in this monograph enrich our understanding. They reveal a great deal about the layers of Victorian apocalypse, without ever removing the veil imagined so powerfully by different apocalyptic writers."
Mark Knight
Roehampton University, Literature and Theology, 22.4, December 2008
Mark Knight
Roehampton University, Literature and Theology, 22.4, December 2008