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The End of the World : apocalypse and its aftermath in Western culture / Maria Manuel Lisboa.
LIBRA - Rare PN56.E63 L57 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lisboa, Maria Manuel, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- End of the world in literature.
- Apocalypse in motion pictures.
- End of the world.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, [1], 194, [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2011.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. Apocalypse Now and Again
- 2. The World Gone M.A.D.
- 3. And Then There Was Nothing: Is the End Ever Really the End?
- 4. Falling Out with Hal and Hester
- 5. Drying of Happiness: Utopia and the End of this World
- Afterword: Libera Me, Domine, De Vita Æterna.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and index.
- Local Notes:
- PN63.E63.L57 2011 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has 2 quotations from Barack Obama written in ms. on half title page; copy has underlines and marginal marks..
- ISBN:
- 9781906924515
- 1906924511
- 9781906924508
- 1906924503
- 9781906924522
- 190692452X
- OCLC:
- 829740477
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