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ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Volume Advance Article: January

Subject Areas: Literature and Literary Theory
Publisher: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment - Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1076-0962
SJR: 10

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“O Little Isle!”: Landscape, Englishness, and Apocalypse in The Last Man and The War of the Worlds

Lyons, Emily

2004 ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

doi:10.1093/isle/isz067

In Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man, Lionel Verney is the sole survivor of a virulent plague that has destroyed his species while leaving the rest of the natural world unharmed. Although he is alone in the world, he feels compelled to leave a record of the last days of humanity. He begins...

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