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THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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| By: |
Rebecca Lemon (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor), Jonathan Roberts (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£37.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0470674997 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780470674994 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
10 April, 2012 |
| Pages: |
714 |
| Description: |
"This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned sacred texts. |
| 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 |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell |
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Returnable |