Post-Apocalyptic Books

American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

by Robert Yeates

2021

Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations…

Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism

by Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn

2022

This book analyses how the environmental movement has developed three overarching narratives that co-exist and compete within it. The first is the narrative of green progress, which has been prominent from the start in environmentalist thou…

God, Morals and Justice in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Cormac Mccarthy's the Road

by Andre Almacen

2012

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Würzburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Themenbereich Amerikanistik: Masters of Transgressive Fiction: Ellis, Pala…

Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature

by John Hay

2017

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.…

Perceiving Environments. Protagonist Perspectives in Post-Apocalyptic Novels

by Ilayda Can

2023

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Flensburg (Institut für Sprache, Literatur und Medien), course: American Literature, language: English, abstract: The allure of dysto…

€18.99 list price

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract

by Claire P. Curtis

2010

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home Again' provides a framework for our fascination with the apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world genre is clear in movies, novels, and te…

€46.96 list price

Unruly Climates, Contested Futures I

by Antje Daniel, Frank Adloff, Juneseo Hwang, Philipp Jacobi, Luis Poscharsky

2026

The future has become a key focus in the social sciences, both as a research topic and as a space for political imagination and resistance. Since the climate crisis has moved into public consciousness, with movements like Fridays for Future…

Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy

by Carlen Lavigne

2018

Twenty-first century American television series such as Revolution, Falling Skies, The Last Ship and The Walking Dead have depicted a variety of doomsday scenarios--nuclear cataclysm, rogue artificial intelligence, pandemic, alien invasion …

€24.40 list price

From Apocalypse to Entropy and Beyond

by Peter Freese

1997

Hispanic Millennial/Apocalyptic Literature

1998

Rebirth (An Aftertime Novel, Book 2)

by Sophie Littlefield

2012

THE END OF THE WORLD WAS JUST THE BEGINNING Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back—she and Ruthie will be happy. Yet with the first wi…

€3.18 list price

Tough Girls

by Sherrie A. Inness

1999

The author examines "toughness" and the image of the "tough girl" as developed in popular media and culture.…