Children of Men: The American Jeremiad in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Science Fiction and Film

This dissertation considers the dynamic and resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown Jr., Joseph Franklin
Other Authors: Victor Stater
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-03252009-163342/