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Title The first last man : Mary Shelley and the postapocalyptic imagination / Eileen M. Hunt.
Author Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- author.
Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  823.7 SHELLEY    Checked Out
Description ix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "By reading Mary Shelley's pandemic novel The Last Man and gothic romance "The Invisible Girl" against the background of plague literature and international thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, this book reveals how she shaped the classics of modern existentialism and dystopian political science fiction from H. G. Wells to Emily St. John Mandel. It is this Shelleyan literary tradition that has generated modern postapocalyptic political thought, which uses writing and other art to reflect upon the global existential question: What is to be done after a massive, human-made disaster?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Last man.
Apocalypse in literature.
Survival in literature.
Plague in literature.
Pandemics in literature.
Existentialism in literature.
ISBN 9780812254020 (hardback) : $34.95
0812254023 (hardback)