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Pentecostal Modernism : Lovecraft, Los Angeles and world-systems culture / Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard.
Van Pelt Library PS3523.O833 S53 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Stephen, 1964- author.
- Barnard, Philip, 1951- author.
- Series:
- New directions in religion and literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Christian theology).
- Revivals--History.
- Revivals.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part A Methods 1
- 1 Modernism and the capitalist world-system: Williams, Wallerstein, Foucault 3
- 2 Combined and uneven development: World-system dynamics 29
- Part B Modernisms 45
- 3 Pentecostalism and the protolanguage of racial equality 47
- 4 Lovecraft, race, and pulp modernism 113
- 5 Afterword: Social Gospel 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1474238734
- 9781474238731
- OCLC:
- 949821558
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