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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
eBook - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
ISBN/EAN: 9781118241158
Umbreit-Nr.: 4020617
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 720 S., 1.47 MB
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Erschienen am 28.02.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
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- Zusatztext
- 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.<ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature</li><li>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</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Rebecca Lemon</b> is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of<i>Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England</i> (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship.<p><b>Emma Mason</b> is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of<i>Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century</i> (2006),<i>Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction</i> (with Mark Knight, 2006), and<i>The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth</i> (2009), and is co-editor of<i>The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible</i> (with Michael Lieb and Jonathan Roberts, 2010).</p><p><b>Jonathan Roberts</b> is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of<i>William Blake's Poetry</i> (2007),<i>The Bible for Sinners</i> (with Christopher Rowland, 2008),<i>Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.</i> (2010), and is co-editor of<i>The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible</i> (with Michael Lieb and Emma Mason, 2010).</p><p><b>Christopher Rowland</b> is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, including<i>The Nature of New Testament Theology</i> (2006),<i>Revelation Through the Centuries</i> (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), and<i>Radical Christian Writings: A Reader</i> (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is Consultant Editor of<i>The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible</i> (edited by Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts, 2010), and together with John Sawyer, Judith Kovacs, and David Gunn, he also edits the Blackwell Bible Commentary series.</p>