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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Wileyblackwell Companions to R)

Jonathan Roberts

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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-centuryIncludes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical contextDraws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literatureIncludes 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

Language: English

Pages: 720

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: April 10, 2012

ISBN: 0470674997

ISBN 13: 9780470674994

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Wileyblackwell Companions to R)

Jonathan Roberts

4/5 ( ratings)

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-centuryIncludes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical contextDraws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literatureIncludes 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

Language: English

Pages: 720

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: April 10, 2012

ISBN: 0470674997

ISBN 13: 9780470674994

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