1st Edition
Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror The Melancholic Sublime
Acknowledgments
Jump Number Ten
Introduction: Theorizing the Sublime
Part 1: Sublime Terror and Violence in the 21st Century
1: 9/11, Sublimity, Ruination, and the War over Architecture
The violence of Sublime Architecture
A Terrifying Nostalgia
2: the Stockhausen Syndrome & the Role of Art, Image, and Spectacle in an Age of Terror
Icarus
Attention Deficit Disorder: Contemporary Terror Attacks and Spectacle
3: The Sublime Moment in Contemporary Literature and the Nostalgia for a Lost Innocence
Foregrounding the Moment of Terror in Literature
In Search of a Lost Innocence
Part 2: The Sublime in the Digital Age and Nostalgia for the Real
4: Digital Nostalgia and the Sublime Utopias of Cyber-Space
Cyber-Utopia
Digital-Dystopia
Retro Gaming: Nostalgia and the Celebration of the Pixel
5: Sublime Special Effects in Contemporary Cinema and Nostalgia for Physical
and Mechanical Special Effects
Remaking the Past
An Uncanny Nostalgia for the Real
"Staring into those Black Eyes": Jaws and Nostalgia for the Mechanical Sublime
Conclusion: "Show me the Way to go Home": Sublime Apathy and Nostalgia
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Matthew Leggatt is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Winchester, UK
