The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

Author: Jonathan Roberts, Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Christopher Rowland
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 1
Published date: 2012
ISBN: 9781405131605

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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-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

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