1. Edition - March 2009
162.- Euro
2009. 720 Pages, Hardcover
- Professional Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-3160-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3160-5 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in Literature is a comprehensive assessment of the Bible's role and influence on English literature from the medieval period up through the 20th century. Bringing together a series of thought-provoking and scholarly essays by some of the world's leading literary and Biblical specialists, the editors explore the influence of the Bible on writers while tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

From the contents
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