The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3160-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Religion

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 role and influence on English literature - as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history - from the medieval period up through the 20th 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lemon, Rebecca

Mason, Emma

Roberts, Jonathan

Rowland, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.

Part I: Introduction.

1. Editors' Introduction.

2. The Literature of the Bible.

3. Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory.

Part II: Medieval.

4. Medieval Literature.

5. The Bible in Old English Poetry.

6. The Medieval Religious Lyric.

7. The Middle English Mystics.

8. The Pearl-Poet.

9. The Bible in William Langland's Piers the Plowman.

10. Chaucer and the Bible.

Part III: Early Modern.

11. The Bible in Early Modern Literature: Introduction.

12. Early Modern Women and the Bible.

13. Early Modern Religious Prose.

14. Spenser and the Bible.

15. The Countess of Pembroke and the Book of Psalms.

16. Shakespeare and the Bible.

17. Donne and the Bible.

18. George Herbert and the Bible.

19. John Milton.

20. Bunyan and the Bible.

21. John Dryden.

Part IV: Eighteenth Century and Romantic.

22. The Bible in the Eighteenth Century.

23. Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers.

24. Daniel Defoe.

25. Swift and The Bible.

26. William Blake and the Bible.

27. Women Romantic Poets and the Bible.

28. Wordsworth and the Bible.

29. Coleridge and the Bible.

30. Jane Austen and the Bible.

31. Byron and the Bible.

32. Shelley and the Bible.

Part V: Victorian.

33. The Victorian Period.

34. The Brownings and the Bible.

35. Tennyson and the Bible.

36. The Brontës and the Bible.

37. Ruskin and the Bible.

38. George Eliot and the Bible.

39. Christina Rossetti and the Bible.

40. Hopkins and the Bible.

41. Sensation Fiction and the Bible.

42. Decadence and the Bible.

Part VI: Modernism.

43. The Bible in Modern Literature.

44. W. B. Yeats and the Bible.

45. Virginia Woolf and the Bible.

46. James Joyce and the Bible.

47. D. H. Lawrence.

48. T. S. Eliot and the Bible.

49. The Bible and the Great War Poets.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Lemon is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship.

Emma Mason is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Women Poet's of the Nineteenth Century (2006), Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Mark Knight, 2006), and The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (2009).

Jonathan Roberts is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of William Blake's Poetry (2007), The Bible for Sinners (with Christopher Rowland, 2008), the forthcoming Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. (2009) and is co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Companion to the Reception History of the Bible (2010).

Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He has written on radical Christian writings including those of Gerrard Winstanley and William Blake and the Bible. He is the author of a number of books, including The Nature of New Testament Theology (2006), Revelation Through the Centuries (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. Together with John Sawyer and Judith Kovacs he also edits the Blackwell Bible Commentary series.