Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe

by Anna Brickhouse

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Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that became an acute national fantasy: elsewhere catastrophe,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198914148

ISBN13:9780198914143

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.54 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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