Siren Song to the Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Loss of the World
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https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.43.2.07Keywords:
endling, prophecy, oblivion, unhistorical, irreversibleAbstract
The paper analyses the place of the End in Mary Shelley’s 1826 science fiction novel The Last Man, in which the image of a world devoid of humanity, as portrayed by the last man writing the last book, is drawn before the reader through a conceptual rethinking of notions such as the loss of the world, prophecy of the future, and oblivion of the past, as well as the return of the irretrievable through the siren song.
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