03375nam 2200757Ia 450 991080780380332120230124184326.01-282-71314-097866127131490-7391-4205-4(CKB)2560000000016394(EBL)616212(OCoLC)659283276(SSID)ssj0000425772(PQKBManifestationID)12147788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425772(PQKBWorkID)10371003(PQKB)10474059(SSID)ssj0000777769(PQKBManifestationID)12267264(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777769(PQKBWorkID)10755693(PQKB)10866063(MiAaPQ)EBC616212(Au-PeEL)EBL616212(CaPaEBR)ebr10404850(CaONFJC)MIL271314(EXLCZ)99256000000001639420100422d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostapocalyptic fiction and the social contract[electronic resource] "we'll not go home again" /Claire P. CurtisLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (211 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7648-X 0-7391-4203-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Last One Out, Please Turn Out the Lights; Chapter 02. " . . . solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"; Chapter 03. "Industrious and Rational"; Chapter 04. "Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains"; Chapter 05. "Maybe Effort Counted"; Chapter 06. "To take root among the stars"; Chapter 07. "We can choose"; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorFictional accounts of the end of the world rarely explore the end of humanity; instead they present the end of what we now know and the opportunity to start over. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: 'We'll Not Go Home Again' contends that postapocalyptic fiction reflects one of our most basic political motivations and uses these fictional accounts to explore the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, and a Rousseauian lens.Apocalypse in literatureScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismScience fictionHistory and criticismEnd of the world in literatureRegression (Civilization) in literatureSurvival in literatureLiterature and societyHistory20th centuryApocalypse in literature.Science fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Science fictionHistory and criticism.End of the world in literature.Regression (Civilization) in literature.Survival in literature.Literature and societyHistory813/.087620938Curtis Claire P.1965-1708491MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807803803321Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract4097529UNINA