Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Literary Reading of Revelation in a Postmillennial Age -- 3. The Ultimate Journey -- 4. The Ultimate Conflict -- 5. The Ultimate Union -- 6. The Ultimate Cosmos -- 7. The Ultimate Self -- 8. The Ultimate Challenge -- 9. The Ultimate Way -- 10. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Leigh succeeds in providing his readers with a general survey of twentieth-century novels that retrieve the thematic and formal elements of premodern apocalyptic literature.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism. End of the world in literature. Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.