Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation
By Steven Goldsmith (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) A fascinating study of the relation be- tween the textual and the historical in apocalyptic representation in texts as di- verse as Revelation, an array of eighteenth-century biblical commentary, Percy Shelley's "Popular Songs," Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man.