| Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture Contributor(s): Shapiro, Stephen (Author), Barnard, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350081620 ISBN-13: 9781350081628 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shapiro, Stephen: - Stephen Shapiro is Professor of American Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including How to Read Marx's Capital (2008) and The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre (2012).Barnard, Philip: - Philip Barnard is Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA. He has published 11 books as author, editor or translator and is the Textual Editor for the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Editions.Mason, Emma: - Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New Directions in Religion and Literature series.Knight, Mark: - Mark Knight is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. His books include Chesterton and Evil (2004), Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (co-edited with Thomas Woodman, 2006), Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (co-written with Emma Mason, OUP, 2006), An Introduction to Religion and Literature (2009) and Religion, Literature and the Imagination (co-edited with Louise Lee, 2009). Current projects include: a monograph entitled Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel; a co-authored book (with Emma Mason) entitled Faithful Reading: Poetry and Christian Practice; and a co-edited volume (with Jo Carruthers and Andrew Tate) entitled A Bible and Literature Reader. With Emma Mason, Mark Knight edits the book series New Directions in Religion and Literature for Bloomsbury Academic. |