Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture

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).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.

• AcknowledgementsPart A: Methods1) Modernism and the Capitalist World-System: Williams, Wallerstein, Foucault2) Combined and Uneven Development: World-System DynamicsPart B: Modernisms3) Pentecostalism and the Protolanguage of Racial Equality4) Lovecraft, Race, and Pulp Modernism5) Afterword: Social GospelBibliographyIndex

This book ... makes a carefully constructed, powerful intervention suggestive of much potential for future scholarship drawing on its principles of approach ... The ideas here will be useful to scholars working on other related fields linked to both Modernism and the Weird, from postmodernism to the New Weird and beyond. In particular, Shapiro and Barnard’s construction of the experience-system of modernity seems useful in reevaluating the relative positions of less centric Modernists, or the concept of Intermodernism in the study and understanding of twentieth-century literature systemically, in the context of cultural fields, such as religion, from which it might otherwise be separated.