The endings of epochs
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The endings of epochs
(Essays and studies, 1995,
D. S. Brewer, 1995
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Essays exploring the treatment of the ends of epochs, from the sixteenth century to the present day.
In these specially commissioned new essays, seven scholars, from the United Kingdom and the Continent, consider a variety of imaginative articulations of the endings of epochs from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day; their subjects are as diverse as Milton's twin-vision of banishment and beginning to Donna Harraway's `A Manifestation for Cyborgs' and Don 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, DonnaHarraway, Alasdair Gray, Martin Amis, Shena Mackay, and Don DeLillo.
Dr LAUREL BRAKE is Senior Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College. The contributors are: HELEN WILCOX, GORDON McMULLEN, LAUREL BRAKE, JOSEPH BRISTOW, MARGARET BEETHAM, PENNY SMITH, JEREMY GREEN
Table of Contents
- "Is this the end of this glorious world?" - "Paradise Lost" and the beginning of the end, Helen Wilcox
- Shakespeare and the end of history, Gordon McMullen
- endgames - the politics of "The Yellow Book", or decadence, gender and journalism, Laurel Brake
- "sterile ecstasies" - the perversity of the decadent movement, Joseph Bristow
- feminism and the end of eras - apocalypse and utopia, Margaret Beetham
- hell innit - the millennium in Alasdair Gray's "Lanark", Martin Amis's "London Fields" and Shena Mackay's "Dunedin", Penny Smith
- last days - millennial history in Don DeLillo's "Mao II", Jeremy Green.
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