Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture

Lee Quinby

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Millennial Seduction

A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture

Lee Quinby

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729577

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Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of...

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Lee Quinby is Professor of American Studies and English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is also the author of Anti-Apocalypse.

Reviews

Paul Boyer, author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture:

Ranging widely over America's 'apocalyptic culture,' Lee Quinby explores how absolutist moral claims, intensified by a millennialist worldview, influence our view of sexuality and gender, our pedagogical debates, and our varied discourses as a society. This intensely personal work critiques the apocalyptic mindset from a skeptical and feminist vantage point. Millennial Seduction is a forceful polemic by a perceptive reader of texts who is also a close observer of contemporary culture, from Broadway to the Internet.

Charles B. Strozier, author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America:

Lee Quinby's delightful book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the meaning of the millennium. Quinby writes as a rationalist who is worried about the tendency toward oppression and violence among those who embrace millenarian concerns. Hers is an informed voice of reason and humanity.

Quinby's genealogical study of apocalyptic discourse offers a sophisticated sensitivity to problems of gender and sexuality, which are often not sufficiently attended to in similar studies, poststructuralist or otherwise.

Quinby has a gift for explaining complex, radical ideas in accessible, well-organized, and personal terms. This provocative and meaningful book deserves a wide audience of both students and liberal-minded book groups.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Lee Quinby Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Threshold of Revelation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Skeptical Revelations of an American Feminist on Patmos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Teaching on the Threshold: Angels and Skeptics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Genealogical Skepticism: How Theory Confronts Millennialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Millennialist Morality and the Problem of Chastity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. Coercive Purity: The Dangerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
6. Feeling Jezebel: Exposing Apocalyptic Gender Panic and Other Con Games Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Addendum: Circuits of Revelation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. Programmed Perfection, Technoppression, and Cyborg Flesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Epilogue: Skepticism as a Way of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
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Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Other: 4 halftones
Keywords: Religious Studies; History; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501729577