William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) imagines the destruction of London as a result of human-induced environmental devastation, the threat of which is becoming increasingly visible today. This urban apocalypse narrative connects to pressing cultural discussions on global warming, modern life in cities, public health, and the interconnectivity of human life on earth.
Sarita Jayanty Mizin is an associate professor of English and affiliate in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Michael Kramp is a professor of English at Lehigh University and is associated with the Film and Documentary Studies and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs. Together, the two professors have edited two critical editions of nineteenth-century post-apocalyptic texts, After London (Clemson UP) and The Doom of the Great City (West Virginia UP).
