If God Meant to Interfere : : American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right / / Christopher Douglas.
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and po...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (378 p.) :; 2 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fiction in the God Gap
- Part One: Multicultural Entanglements
- 1. Multiculturalism, Secularization, Resurgence
- 2. The Poisonwood Bible’s Multicultural Graft
- 3. Christian Multiculturalism and Unlearned History in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
- 4. Recapitulation and Religious Indifference in The Plot Against America
- Part Two: Postmodern Entanglements
- 5. Thomas Pynchon’s Prophecy
- 6. Science and Religion in Carl Sagan’s Contact
- 7. Evolution and Theodicy in Blood Meridian
- 8. The Postmodern Gospel According to Dan
- Conclusion: Politics, Literature, Method
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index