Books by Lee Quinby

This text explores the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation.

As the new millennium approaches, the author contends there is a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the US; which, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. She offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that currently pervades US culture.

Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of...