Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse

by Greg Garrett

Book Overview

When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images from World War I, when a generation died horribly in the trenches. They walked in art inspired by the Holocaust and by the atomic attacks on Japan. Now,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190260459
• ISBN13: 9780190260453
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"