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Table of Contents
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7
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Preface
Introduction
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9
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Article
American apocalypse : the end of exceptionalism and the return of Alexis de Tocqueville
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23
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Article
Evolutionary narratives and american ideological tropes : the end of progress
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41
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Article
Wallace Stevens's Cloudscapes : the disillusionment of apocalypse
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61
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Article
"Going Round and Round with Old Gravity" : technological progress and escape in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
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77
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Article
Vision into words : Don DeLillo's Underworld
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89
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Article
Apocalypse and hoax : from Poe's social texts to Social Text
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101
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Rubric
Notes on contributors
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125
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Index
Index of names
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127
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