Crawford Gribben

Writing the Rapture

Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Crawford Gribben offers the only full-length history, description, and analysis of the rapture-novel genre. The late 1980s, which saw a renaissance of the evangelical imagination, culminated in the creation of the Left Behind series, co-authored by Tim La Haye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The novels in this series, Gribben shows, are astonishingly derivative -- borrowing entire characters and significant incidents from earlier books. Analyzing the unexpected publishing success of the Left Behind novels, he characterizes the series as a barometer of evangelical popular opinion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780195326604
• ISBN-10: 0195326601
• Artikelnr.: 26201579

Autorenporträt

Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
Introduction
1: The eclectic roots of prophecy fiction
2: The orthodox consolidation of prophecy fiction
3: Prophecy fiction and the Second World War
4: Prophecy fiction and the Cold War
5: Prophecy fiction and evangelical political re-engagement
6: The Left Behind phenomenon
7: Prophecy fiction after Left Behind
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index