Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

by Crawford Gribben

For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists. Emerging from a growing conservative culture industry, the genre dramatizes events that many believers expect to occur at the end of the age - the rapture of the saved, the rise of the Antichrist, and the fearful tribulation faced by those who are "left behind."
Seeking the forces that drove the unexpected success of the Left Behind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326601
• ISBN13: 9780195326604
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"