Anmerkungen:
Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 12, 2021)
Beschreibung:
The End is near! This phrase, so well known in the contemporary United States, invokes images of manic self-proclaimed prophets of doom standing on street corners shouting their warnings and predictions to amused or indifferent passersby. However, such proclamations have long been a feature of the American cultural landscape, and were never exclusively the domain of wild-eyed fanatics. 'A Dream of the Judgment Day' describes the origins and development of American apocalypticism and millennialism from the beginnings of English colonization of North America in the early 1600s through the formation of the United States and its travails in the nineteenth century.