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Writing the Rapture

Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

Crawford Gribben author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:26th Feb '09

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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: 165mm x 239mm x 23mm

Weight: 522g

272 pages