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The Blackwell companion to the Bible in English literature / edited by Rebecca Lemon [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.
- Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible and literature.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible.
- Bible--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (715 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature - as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history - from the medieval period through to the twentieth-centuryIncludes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical contextDraws on examples from medieval, early-modern, e
- Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction. General introduction / Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts
- The literature of the Bible / Christopher Rowland
- Biblical hermeneutics and literary theory / David Jasper
- Pt. II. Medieval. Introduction / Daniel Anlezark
- Old English poetry / Catherine A.M. Clarke
- The medieval religious lyric / Douglas Gray
- The Middle English mystics / Annie Sutherland
- The Pearl-poet / Helen Barr
- William Langland / Mary Clemente Davlin
- Geoffrey Chaucer / Christiania Whitehead
- Pt. III. Early modern. Introduction / Roger Pooley
- Early modern women / Elizabeth Clarke
- Early modern religious prose / Julie Maxwell
- Edmund Spenser / Carol V. Kaske
- Mary Sidney / Rivkah Zim
- William Shakespeare / Hannibal Hamlin
- John Donne / Jeanne Shami
- George Herbert / John Drury
- John Milton / Michael Lieb
- John Bunyan / Andrew Bradstock
- John Dryden / Gerard Reedy
- Pt. IV. Eighteenth century and Romantic. Introduction / Stephen Prickett
- Eighteenth-century hymn writers / J.R. Watson
- Daniel Defoe / Valentine Cunningham
- Jonathan Swift / Michael F. Suarez
- William Blake / Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland
- Women Romantic poets / Penny Bradshaw
- William Wordsworth / Deeanne Westbrook
- S. T. Coleridge / Graham Davidson
- Jane Austen / Michael Giffin
- George Gordon Byron / Wolf Z. Hirst
- P. B. Shelley / Bernard Beatty
- Pt. V. Victorian. Introduction / Elisabeth Jay
- The Brownings / Kevin Mills
- Alfred Tennyson / Kirstie Blair
- The Brontës / Marianne Thormählen
- John Ruskin / Dinah Birch
- George Eliot / Charles LaPorte
- Christina Rossetti / Elizabeth Ludlow
- G. M. Hopkins / Paul S. Fiddes
- Sensation fiction / Mark Knight
- Decadence / Andrew Tate
- Pt. VI. Modernist. Introduction / Ward Blanton
- W. B. Yeats / Edward Larrissy
- Virginia Woolf / Douglas L. Howard
- James Joyce / William Franke
- D. H. Lawrence / T.R. Wright
- T. S. Eliot / David Fuller
- The Great War poets / Jane Potter.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9786612547959
- 9781444324174
- 1444324179
- 9781118241158
- 1118241150
- 9781782685760
- 1782685766
- 9781444324181
- 1444324187
- 9781282547957
- 128254795X
- 9781405197946
- 1405197943
- OCLC:
- 609862789
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