Sublime Conclusions
Last Man Narratives from Apocalypse to Death of God
Robert K. Weninger
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Studies In Comparative Literature 43 Legenda 29 September 2017 • 590pp ISBN: 978-1-910887-21-9 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781884-23-2 (paperback, 23 April 2019) • RRP £15.99, $22.50, €22.50 ISBN: 978-1-781884-24-9 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR EnglishGermanFrenchArtFictionTheologyPhilosophystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. Complementing her visions of a world-encompassing natural plague (The Last Man, 1826) and man-made technological self-eradication (Frankenstein, 1818), the third – and oldest – paradigm of how to depict humankind’s demise is the religious notion of Apocalypse, God’s Day of Reckoning. Through in-depth philosophical and theological contextualization of the German, French and British literary settings of the apocalyptic tradition around 1800, Sublime Conclusions chronicles the transition from theism and deism to atheism and the ‘Death of God’ on which, Weninger contends, Shelley’s novels – and hence modern science fiction in general – are premised. A tour de force of comparative methodology, Weninger’s transdisciplinary approach is as wide-ranging as it is meticulous, interweaving the manifold discourses of catastrophe in literary history, art and film history, philosophy and theology, as well as the history of science and science fiction, across more than two centuries of European intellectual history from Voltaire’s mid-eighteenth-century response to the earthquake of Lisbon to Günther Anders’s presaging, in the wake of Hiroshima, humankind’s extinction through nuclear Armageddon. Robert Weninger is Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Weninger, Robert K., Sublime Conclusions: Last Man Narratives from Apocalypse to Death of God, Studies In Comparative Literature, 43 (Legenda, 2017) First footnote reference: 35 Robert K. Weninger, Sublime Conclusions: Last Man Narratives from Apocalypse to Death of God, Studies In Comparative Literature, 43 (Legenda, 2017), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Weninger, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Weninger, Robert K.. 2017. Sublime Conclusions: Last Man Narratives from Apocalypse to Death of God, Studies In Comparative Literature, 43 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Weninger 2017: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Weninger 2017: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Sublime-Conclusions www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
