The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

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Synopsis

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

Book details

Series:: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion (Book 76)
Author:: Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland
ISBN:: 9781118241158
Related ISBNs:: 9781444324174, 9781405197946, 9780470674994, 9781405131605
Publisher:: Wiley
Pages:: N/A
Reading age:: Not specified
Includes images:: Yes
Date of addition:: 2019-12-12
Usage restrictions:: Copyright
Copyright by:: John Wiley & Sons
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality