Apocalyptic Visions and Utopian Spaces in Late Victorian and Edwardian Prophecy Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6012202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Stähler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 162-211 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.23.1.0162 |
| OpenAlex | W2117941605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Prophecy fiction emerged around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It is suggested in this article that, like modernist literature, it articulates a reaction to, and against, modernity, providing an alternative response to its fragmenting, decentering, and spiritually draining impact on traditional societies. In contrast to the mostly cerebral engagement of modernist fiction with religious experience recently argued for by Pericles Lewis, these texts are shown to retort affirmatively and exhortatively to the widespread crisis of faith of their time with literary (re)visions of scriptural apocalyptic prophecy. It is argued that prophecy fiction amalgamates utopian and apocalyptic elements in order to promote a specific imagined community and its spatial correlative
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Faith · Literature · Modernity · Sociology · Theology · Vision · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Recovered Roots
Utopian Spaces of Modernism
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest
Corpus Christi
Anarchism and Utopia
Origins of Futuristic Fiction
"Modernity, modernism, and fascism. A "mazeway resynthesis
Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl and the Poetics of Space
Political Apocalypse
Defining Dispensationalism
Is Seeing Believing? The Use of Evidence in Representations of the Miraculous Mass of Saint Gregory
The relevance of Morris's utopia
L'utopie et les utopies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |