TY  - BOOK
AU  - Douglas,Christopher
TI  - If God meant to interfere: American literature and the rise of the Christian right 
AV  - PS374.R47 
U1  - 813/.5409382 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Christianity in literature
KW  - Fundamentalism in literature
KW  - Evangelicalism in literature
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian conservatism
KW  - Religious right
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: fiction in the God gap -- Multicultural entanglements. Multiculturalism, secularization, resurgence -- The poisonwood Bible's multicultural graft -- Christian multiculturalism in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Recapitulation and religious indifference in The plot against America -- Postmodern entanglements. Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sagan's Contact -- Evolution and theodicy in Blood meridian -- The postmodern gospel according to Dan -- Conclusion: politics, literature, method
N2  - "Proposes to solve the question of how contemporary American literature has registered--or has failed to register--what is one of the most important cultural paradigm shifts of the postwar period, the astonishing expansion and empowerment of fundamentalist and conservative evangelical and Christianity in the United States"--
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