Abstract
This chapter explores the link between religion and popular print culture in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More specifically, it examines the impact of religious books and other narratives on best-selling formulas, ways of reading, and the development of mass publishing. It first considers the business of religious publishing and the characteristics of popular religious texts, including social gospel novels and those dealing with the Bible before turning to the Christians’ relationship to fiction. Finally, it discusses the controversy surrounding religious fiction.
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