If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right

by Christopher Douglas

Book Overview

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 political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501746812
• ISBN13: 9781501746819
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher