ENGB37H3F Popular Literature & Mass Culture: Apocalyptic Fiction
Instructor: Christine Bolus-Reichert
Meeting Time: Mondays 10am - 1pm
Human beings have always tried to imagine the end of the world, much as they have the beginning. But end-of-the-world fictions did not become a significant part of English-speaking societies until after the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which also brought with it new theories about history and a new literary genre, science fiction, in which the future is extrapolated from present conditions. This course considers six representative works of apocalyptic science fiction from the end of World War II to the present, focusing in particular on how human societies adapt in the aftermath of catastrophic change.
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