(Preliminary) Bibliography

You are not supposed to read all, or even most, of these works - the list is more supposed to be a useful and representative cut into the extremely vast body of writings on all points of the apocalyptic. Believe me, it's VAST...as far as these works are available in the Bamberg Opac, I've included the catalog numbers.


Barr, David L. “The Apocalypse of John as Oral Enactment.” Interpretation 40 (1986): 243-256.
[ 15/.ZT 4020-40 ]

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
[an absolute landmark study on maybe the most influential Puritan genre: the jeremiad. Bercovitch is very outspoken on what he believes is the apocalyptic foundation of all American culture - useful, despite its age!] [ 40/HR 1708 FE 9151]

Brummett, Barry. Contemporary Apocalyptic Rhetoric. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
[ 40/ER 990 LE 6949 ]

Caird, George B. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. London: A & C Black, 1984. [the whole thing annotated by a non-fundamentalist theologian] [ 15/xtl 57 CA 717-27 ]

Cohn, Norman. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to come. The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. [ 10/irg 93 CR 1478 ]

Engler, Bernd, Joerg O. Fichte, and Oliver Scheiding, eds. Millenial Thought in America. Historical and Intellectual Contexts, 1630-1680. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002.

Freese, Peter. “From the Apocalypse to the Entropic End: From Hope to Despair to New Hope.” Eds. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. The Holodeck in the Garden. Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. 334-356.

Heard, Alex. Apocalypse pretty soon. Travels in End-Time America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Kibbey, Ann. The interpretation of material shapes in Puritanism. A study of rhetoric, prejudice, and violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. [ 40/HS 1721 FP 3104]

Korshin, Paul J. “Queuing and Waiting: the Apocalypse in England, 1660-1750.” Eds. C.A Patrides and Joseph Wittreich. The Apocalypse in English Renaissance thought and literature. Pattern, antecedents and Repercussions. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. 240-265. [ 40/HI 1117 FM 2356]

Kreuziger, Frederick A. Apocalypse and Science Fiction. A Dialectic of Religious and Secular Soteriologies. Chico: Scholars Press, 1982.

May, John R. Toward a New Earth: Apocalypse in the American Novel. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1972. [ 40/HR 1819 FG 5605]

O'Leary, Stephen. Arguing the Apocalypse. A Theory of Millenial Rhetoric. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Robinson, Douglas. American Apocalypses. The Image of the End of the World in American Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. [ 40/HR 1712 FN 7313]

Seed, David, ed. Imagining Apocalypse. Studies in Cultural Crisis. London, Macmillan Press, 2000.

Söfting, Inger-Anne. "Desert Pandemonium: Cormack McCarthy's Apocalptic 'Western' in Blood Meridian." American Studies in Scandinavia 31.2 (1999): 13-30.

Stein, Stephen J., ed. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. Volume 3. Apocalpyticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age. New York: Continuum, 1998. [ 15/yur 98 CS 1914-3]

Taylor, Justin. A Mountain Walked or Stumbled: Madness, Apocalypse, and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.” <http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/lovecraft_taylor.pdf>.

Uhlig, Christiane, and Rupert Kalkofen, eds. In Erwartung des Endes. Bern: Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000. [ 40/EC 5410 LH 8579]

Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses. Prophecies, Cults and Millenial Beliefs through the Ages. London: Hutchinson, 1999. [ 40/HG 432 LH 6436 ]