Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

Matthew Leggatt is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Winchester, UK

Acknowledgments

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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