Writing the Rapture
Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:26th Feb '09
Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 1st February 2025, but could change
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.
For those wanting to understand the development of prophecy fiction, or to locate their own reading within a broader framework, Gribben offers a scholarly, readable and comprehensive account. * Simon Woodman, Regent's Review. *
a comprehensive, original, and eminently readable survey of the prophecy novel ... Writing the Rapture is a valuable and poignant contribution not only to the religious and cultural history of American evangelicalism but also to the literary history of a segment of American literature of increasing significance * Axel Stähler, ZAA *
ISBN: 9780195326604
Dimensions: 239mm x 165mm x 23mm
Weight: 522g
272 pages