Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

Name: Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
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ISBN: 9780470674994

ISBN-10: 0470674997

ISBN-13: 9780470674994

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland

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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 role and influence on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period up through the 20th 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, eighteenth–century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literatureIncludes many ′secular′ or…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Michael Lieb is Research Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Emma Mason is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Dr. Jonathan Roberts is Senior Lecturer in English atthe University of Liverpool.



List of Contributors



Introduction



General Introduction




The Literature of the Bible




Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory




Medieval



Introduction




Old English Poetry




The Medieval Religious Lyric




The Middle English Mystics




The Pearl-Poet




William Langland




Geoffrey Chaucer




Early Modern



Introduction




Early Modern Women




Early Modern Religious Prose




Edmund Spenser




Mary Sidney




William Shakespeare




John Donne




George Herbert




John Milton




John Bunyan




John Dryden




Eighteenth Century and Romantic



Introduction




Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers




Daniel Defoe




Jonathan Swift




William Blake




Women Romantic Poets




William Wordsworth




S.T. Coleridge




Jane Austen




George Gordon Byron




P.B. Shelley




Victorian



Introduction




The Brownings




Alfred Tennyson




The Brontï¿½s




John Ruskin




George Eliot




Christina Rossetti




G. M. Hopkins




Sensation Fiction




Decadence




Modernist



Introduction




W.B. Yeats




Virginia Woolf




James Joyce




D. H. Lawrence




T.S. Eliot




The Great War Poets



Index