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Article: Kevin Mills. Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing.(Book review)
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Kevin Mills. Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007. 228pp.
Contrary to popular belief, history is usually not written by the victors, but, by the losers--from the Old Testament to Gone with the Wind--keen to vindicate their lost cause. Apocalypses, Mills suggests, are usually written by those who have lost "real bad"--not just on a political scale, but on a cosmic one. The idea that the Victorian age is heavily peopled with losers is not immediately obvious, but Mills' initial thesis--that nineteenth-century English literature is steeped in references, covert and overt, to the biblical Apocalypse--is both ...