The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature Paperback / softback
Edited by Rebecca (University of Southern California, USA) Lemon, Emma (University of Warwick, UK) Mason, Jonathan (University of Liverpool, UK) Roberts, Christopher (University of Oxford, UK) Rowland
Part of the Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series
Paperback / softback
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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 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, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literatureIncludes 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
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:720 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780470674994
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:720 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:10/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780470674994
