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Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation

By Steven Goldsmith (NHC Fellow, 1990–91)

Apocalypse; Christianity; Mimesis; Prophecy; Romanticism; Book of Revelation; The Bible

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993

From the publisher’s description:

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.

Subjects
Literature / Religion / Literary Criticism / Apocalypse / Christianity / Mimesis / Prophecy / Romanticism / Book of Revelation / The Bible /

Goldsmith, Steven (NHC Fellow, 1990–91). Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.