Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing

by Kevin Mills

This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482372
• ISBN13: 9781611482379
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 228 Pages