The Blackwell companion to the Bible in English literature

Author(s)

• Lemon, Rebecca

Bibliographic Information

The Blackwell companion to the Bible in English literature

edited by Rebecca Lemon ... [et al.]

（Blackwell companions to religion）

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

• : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix Part I Introduction 1 1 General Introduction Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts 3 2 The Literature of the Bible Christopher Rowland 10 3 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory David Jasper 22 Part II Medieval 39 4 Introduction Daniel Anlezark 41 5 Old English Poetry Catherine A. M. Clarke 61 6 The Medieval Religious Lyric Douglas Gray 76 7 The Middle English Mystics Annie Sutherland 85 8 The Pearl-Poet Helen Barr 100 9 William Langland Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP 116 10 Geoffrey Chaucer Christiania Whitehead 134 Part III Early Modern 153 11 Introduction Roger Pooley 155 12 Early Modern Women Elizabeth Clarke 169 13 Early Modern Religious Prose Julie Maxwell 184 14 Edmund Spenser Carol V. Kaske 197 15 Mary Sidney Rivkah Zim 211 16 William Shakespeare Hannibal Hamlin 225 17 John Donne Jeanne Shami 239 18 George Herbert John Drury 254 19 John Milton Michael Lieb 269 20 John Bunyan Andrew Bradstock 286 21 John Dryden Gerard Reedy, S.J. 297 Part IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic 311 22 Introduction Stephen Prickett 313 23 Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers J. R. Watson 329 24 Daniel Defoe Valentine Cunningham 345 25 Jonathan Swift Michael F. Suarez, S.J. 359 26 William Blake Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland 373 27 Women Romantic Poets Penny Bradshaw 383 28 William Wordsworth Deeanne Westbrook 397 29 S. T. Coleridge Graham Davidson 413 30 Jane Austen Michael Giffin 425 31 George Gordon Byron Wolf Z. Hirst 438 32 P. B. Shelley Bernard Beatty 451 Part V Victorian 463 33 Introduction Elisabeth Jay 465 34 The Brownings Kevin Mills 482 35 Alfred Tennyson Kirstie Blair 496 36 The Brontes Marianne Thormahlen 512 37 John Ruskin Dinah Birch 525 38 George Eliot Charles LaPorte 536 39 Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Ludlow 551 40 G. M. Hopkins Paul S. Fiddes 563 41 Sensation Fiction Mark Knight 577 42 Decadence Andrew Tate 587 Part VI Modernist 601 43 Introduction Ward Blanton 603 44 W. B. Yeats Edward Larrissy 617 45 Virginia Woolf Douglas L. Howard 629 46 James Joyce William Franke 642 47 D. H. Lawrence T. R. Wright 654 48 T. S. Eliot David Fuller 667 49 The Great War Poets Jane Potter 681 Index 696

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Details

• NCID: BA90071848
• ISBN:
  • 9781405131605
• LCCN: 2008047964
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden ; Chichester
• Pages/Volumes: x, 703 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR149.B5
  • DC22 : 820.9/3822
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Bible and literature
  • LCSH : Bible -- Influence
  • LCSH : Bible -- In literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA48843705