The Endings of Epochs
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brake, Laurel, PUBLISHER: Boydell & Brewer, In these specially commissioned new ong>essaysong>, seven scholars, from the United Kingdom ong>andong> the Continent, consider a variety of imaginative articulations of the endings of epochs from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day; their subjects are as diverse as Milton's twin-vision of banishment ong>andong> beginning to Donna Harraway's A Manifestation for Cyborgs' ong>andong> Don DeLillo's version of the death of the author in Mao II. The ong>essaysong> treat drama, epic, poetry, the periodical press, fiction, ong>andong> current theory; principal authors include Milton, An Collins, Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry James, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Symons, Olive Schreiner, Angela Carter, Bell Hooks, Donna Harraway, Alasdair Gray, Martin Amis, Shena Mackay, ong>andong> Don DeLillo.Dr LAUREL BRAKE is Senior Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College. The contributors are: HELEN WILCOX, GORDON McMULLEN, LAUREL BRAKE, JOSEPH BRISTOW, MARGARET BEETHAM, PENNY SMITH, JEREMY GREEN