Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary

by Anthony Dyer Hoefer

While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase "city upon a hill" on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.S. political discourse are now dominated by eschatological visions that have emerged from the particular historical experiences of the U.S. South. Despite the strategic exploitation of this reality by political communicators, scholars in the humanities have paid little...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256449
• ISBN13: 9780814256442
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"