Gysin, Fritz. 2000. Introduction. SPELL 12, 9-21.

Pease, Donald E. 2000. American Apocalypse: The End of Exceptionalism and the Return of Alexis de Tocqueville. SPELL 12, 23-40.

Soltysik, Agnieszka M. 2000. Evolutionary Narratives and American Ideological Tropes: The End of Progress. SPELL 12, 41-59.

Vejdovsky, Boris. 2000. Wallace Stevens's Cloudscapes: The Disillusionment of Apocalypse. SPELL 12, 61-76.

Dalsgaard, Inger H. 2000. "Going Round and Round with Old Gravity": Technological Progress and Escape in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. SPELL 12, 77-88.

Petter, Henri. 2000. Vision into Words: Don DeLillo's Underworld. SPELL 12, 89-99.

Kaspar Aldrich, Elizabeth. 2000. Apocalypse and Hoax: From Poe's Social Text to Social Text. SPELL 12, 101-123.