Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century
The narrative injunction to Mr Dombey, ‘awake, doomed man,’ has a Carlylean, Miltonic and biblical source, but it also strikes a significant key-note for early twenty-first-century readers. Acts of unimaginable terror, catastrophic natural disasters and a global sense of humankind’s time running out...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12432 |