Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
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Hardback
£163.95
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 9781405131605
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 20/03/2009
Width: 17.8 cm
Height: 25.4 cm
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
"An extremely useful volume." (The Year's Work in English Studies, 29 August 2011)
"Probably what comes across most clearly is how, and that, many of the writers chose deliberately to draw on the Bible, and for students increasingly unfamiliar with the Bible, this approach challenges as well as informs." (Reference Reviews, December 2009)
"This is indeed a true companion, one that succeeds in its aim of being both scholarly and accessible to all lovers of English literature. In short, all students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university." (Church Times, August 2009)
