Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
LEONA ARCHER AND ALEX STUART, WITH DARON BURROWS
Introduction
PART I
Pre-1800
DARON BURROWS
'Vers la fin croistra la religion': The End of the World
According to the Medieval French Prose Apocalypse
NIGEL MORGAN
Three French Fourteenth-Century Apocalypses as
Reinterpretations of English Thirteenth-Century Predecessors
ADELINE LIONETTO-HESTERS
Ronsard's Bergerie: From Pastoral Dream to Apocalyptic Reverie
KATHRYN BANKS
Apocalypse and Literature in the Sixteenth Century:
The Case of Rabelais and the Frozen Words
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NATHAN PARKER
Proselytism and Apocalypticism in England Before and
After the Act of Toleration of 1689: The French Threat
and a Lone Puritan
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PART 2.
III
1800-1945
MICHEL AROUIMI
Rimbaud's Apocalypse: Founding Principles and
Literary Repercussions (Bosco, Ramuz)
113
MARIE VELIKANOV
Eschatology in the Poetry of Charles Peguy
127
MARIA MANUEL LISBOA
This World is Not the Case: Apocalypse in J.H. Rosny Aine
139
JENNIFER RUSHWORTH
Alors la resurrection aura pris fin: Visions of the End in Proust's
A la Recherche du temps perdu
153
CRISPIN LEE
Georges Bataille or the Theory and Fiction of Apocalyptic Visions
165
PART 3
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Post-1945
ANA-MARIA M'ENESTI
Dialectics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Eugene Ionesco's Plays
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LARA COX
Absurd Visions of the Apocalypse: Adamov, Arrabal and
Ionesco and a Politics of Spectatorship for the Postmodern Age
191
SUSANNAH ELLIS
Writing in the Aftermath: The Figure of the Untermensch
in Antoine Volodine's Des Anges mineurs
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TONY THORSTR6M
The Corporeal Apocalypse: Antagonistic Visions of the Human
Body in Michel Houellebecq's La Possibilityd'une ile (2.005)
219
ANGUS MACDONALD
New French Horror and the End of the World As We Know It
Notes on Contributors
Index
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