The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880

by Candy Gunther Brown

Book Overview

The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855111
• ISBN13: 9780807855119
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"