Findesiecle Fictions 1890s1990s Apocalypse Technoscience Empire

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"Recent apocalyptic scenarios of post-industrial meltdown and global crisis, this book suggests, are rooted in the imperialist upheavals and technological eruptions of that period that brought the crisis of the Victorian and the arrival of the modern, the fin de siècle."--P. [4] of cover

subjects: English fiction,  Nuclear warfare in literature,  Apocalypse in literature,  Terrorism in literature,  History and criticism,  English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Postmodernism (literature)