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Title

Pocket Apocalypse: American Survivalist Fiction from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Slusser, George. “Pocket Apocalypse: American Survivalist Fiction from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man.” In Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis, edited by David Seed, 118-35. New York: Macmillan, 2000.

Annotation

Considers America’s cultural fixation on apocalypse in the face of material change, drawing connections between apocalyptic and millennialist thinking. Briefly discusses “The Big Two-Hearted River” within the context of Thoreau’s survivalist text, Walden (1854), noting similarities with physical description and experiential perspective. Draws attention to Nick’s use of the opposing adjectives good and tragic in relation to humankind’s apocalyptic condition.

Published in

Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis

Date

2000

Pages

118-135

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