Fin-de-Sicle Fictions, 1890s-1990s Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire [Hardcover]

Fin-de-Si?cle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-si?cle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Apocalypse, Technoscience, Empire 1. When Time Shall Be No More: Entropy, Degeneration, History 2. The Eternal Return of Chaos 3. Dusk of the Nations: Century's End and Imperial Crisis 4. Terminal Bodies: New Men and Women for the '00s Conclusion: Post-Millennial Apocalypse Bibliography Index

Winner: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book of the Year Award 2014 University of California, Riverside, USA

A portrait of centuries' ends, of catastrophic denouements and apocalyptic rebirths, Fin de Si?cle Fictions, 1890s-1990s brings to life the millennial preoccupations characteristic of the emergence and consolidation of global capitalism and technoscientific Empire. The range of texts from HG Wells to Octavia Butler, future war fiction to Star Trek, lost world fiction to The X-Files and contexts with which it engages is impressive. Dr Mark Bould, University of the West of England, UK

Aris Mousoutzanis is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at University of Brighton, UK. He has published on apocalyptic literature, science fiction and the Gothic, as well as on new media and online communities. He is currently researching on the relations between trauma theory and media culture.