Presents a collection of critical essays on Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Machines of joy and sorrow: rockets, time machines, robots, man vs. machine, Orwellian tales, and Fahrenheit 451 / Wayne L. Johnson -- Burning bright: Fahrenheit 451 as symbolic dystopia / Donald Watt -- Reverie and the marvelous: doublings of the self in The Martian chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 / William F. Touponce -- The post-apocalyptic library: oral and literate culture in Fahrenheit 451 and A canticle for Leibowitz / Susan Spencer -- The flight from the good life: Fahrenheit 451 in the context of postwar American dystopias / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury's Cold War novels / Kevin Hoskinson -- The imagery of hands in Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- What "carried the trick?" Mass exploitation and the decline of thought in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- "Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus?" The wilderness in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron.