{"product_id":"the-blackwell-companion-to-the-bible-in-english-literature-isbn-9780470674994","title":"The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature","description":"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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Contributors ix  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 General Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Literature of the Bible\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Rowland\u003c\/i\u003e 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Jasper\u003c\/i\u003e 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Medieval\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel Anlezark\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Old English Poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine A. M. Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Medieval Religious Lyric\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas Gray\u003c\/i\u003e 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Middle English Mystics\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnnie Sutherland\u003c\/i\u003e 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e-Poet\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Barr\u003c\/i\u003e 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 William Langland\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP\u003c\/i\u003e 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Geoffrey Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristiania Whitehead\u003c\/i\u003e 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Early Modern\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoger Pooley\u003c\/i\u003e 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Early Modern Women\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Early Modern Religious Prose\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulie Maxwell\u003c\/i\u003e 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Edmund Spenser\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarol V. Kaske\u003c\/i\u003e 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Mary Sidney\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRivkah Zim\u003c\/i\u003e 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHannibal Hamlin\u003c\/i\u003e 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 John Donne\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanne Shami\u003c\/i\u003e 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 George Herbert\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Drury\u003c\/i\u003e 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 John Milton\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Lieb\u003c\/i\u003e 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 John Bunyan\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Bradstock\u003c\/i\u003e 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 John Dryden\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerard Reedy, S.J.\u003c\/i\u003e 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e311\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Prickett\u003c\/i\u003e 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. R. Watson\u003c\/i\u003e 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Daniel Defoe\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eValentine Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Jonathan Swift\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael F. Suarez, S.J.\u003c\/i\u003e 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 William Blake\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland\u003c\/i\u003e 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Women Romantic Poets\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePenny Bradshaw\u003c\/i\u003e 383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 William Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeeanne Westbrook\u003c\/i\u003e 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 S. T. Coleridge\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGraham Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Jane Austen\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Giffin\u003c\/i\u003e 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 George Gordon Byron\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWolf Z. Hirst\u003c\/i\u003e 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 P. B. Shelley\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernard Beatty\u003c\/i\u003e 451\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Victorian\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e463\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElisabeth Jay\u003c\/i\u003e 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The Brownings\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKevin Mills\u003c\/i\u003e 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Alfred Tennyson\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirstie Blair\u003c\/i\u003e 496\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Brontës\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianne Thormählen\u003c\/i\u003e 512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 John Ruskin\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDinah Birch\u003c\/i\u003e 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 George Eliot\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles LaPorte\u003c\/i\u003e 536\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Christina Rossetti\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Ludlow\u003c\/i\u003e 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 G. M. Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul S. Fiddes\u003c\/i\u003e 563\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Sensation Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e 577\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Decadence\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Tate\u003c\/i\u003e 587\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Modernist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e601\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWard Blanton\u003c\/i\u003e 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 W. B. Yeats\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Larrissy\u003c\/i\u003e 617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas L. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 James Joyce\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Franke\u003c\/i\u003e 642\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 D. H. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eT. R. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e 654\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 T. S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e 667\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 The Great War Poets\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane Potter\u003c\/i\u003e 681\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 696\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is indeed a true companion, one that succeeds in its aim of being both scholarly and accessible to all lovers of English literature. In short, all students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university.\" (\u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003cp\u003e \"Probably what comes across most clearly is how, and that, many of the writers chose deliberately to draw on the Bible, and for students increasingly unfamiliar with the Bible, this approach challenges as well as informs.\" (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"An extremely useful volume.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRebecca Lemon\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTreason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Mason\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Poets of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eNineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (with Mark Knight, 2006), and \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Lieb and Jonathan Roberts, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWilliam Blake's Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Bible for Sinners\u003c\/i\u003e (with Christopher Rowland, 2008), \u003ci\u003eBlake. Wordsworth. Religion.\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Lieb and Emma Mason, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Rowland\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of New Testament Theology\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eRevelation Through the Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), and \u003ci\u003eRadical Christian Writings: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is Consultant Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of the Bible's role and influence on English Literature, from Old English poetry through to T. S. Eliot. Including examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature, the book demonstrates how writers from across these periods have been influenced by the Bible in their work.  \u003cp\u003eThe Companion builds on an existing body of criticism committed to recovering the doctrinal and faith commitments of individual writers, by turning instead to their uses of the Bible as a shared textual focus. This attention to text (rather than belief) means that many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers are included alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by leading scholars in the fields of religion, theology and literature, this collection offers readers a detailed introduction to the Bible in English literature, and traces the key developments of biblical themes and literary theory across the canon.\u003c\/p\u003e  “This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to T. S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned sacred texts. In my view, the result is indispensable reading – a Bible no less – for students and scholars alike.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eArthur Bradley, Lancaster University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“This is an extremely valuable resource for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in the relationship between the Bible and English Literature. Through a series of stimulating essays, the editors and contributors highlight the unparalleled importance of the Bible within the literary tradition. They explore the multitude of ways in which this sacred text has both shaped and been shaped by the imagination of writers. Our thinking will be much richer as a result of what this book has to say.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMark Knight, Roehampton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990170976485,"sku":"NP9780470674994","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470674994.jpg?v=1761786775","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-blackwell-companion-to-the-bible-in-english-literature-isbn-9780470674994","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}