Beschreibung
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
Autorenportrait
Rebecca Lemon is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of
Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship.
Emma Mason is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author ofWomen Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2006),Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Mark Knight, 2006), andThe Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (2009), and is co-editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Jonathan Roberts, 2010).
Jonathan Roberts is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author ofWilliam Blake's Poetry (2007),The Bible for Sinners (with Christopher Rowland, 2008),Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. (2010), and is co-editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Emma Mason, 2010).
Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, includingThe Nature of New Testament Theology (2006),Revelation Through the Centuries (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), andRadical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is Consultant Editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (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.
Inhalt
List of Contributors ix
Part I Introduction1
1 General Introduction
Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts 3
2 The Literature of the Bible
Christopher Rowland 10
3 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory
David Jasper 22
Part II Medieval39
4 Introduction
Daniel Anlezark 41
5 Old English Poetry
Catherine A. M. Clarke 61
6 The Medieval Religious Lyric
Douglas Gray 76
7 The Middle English Mystics
Annie Sutherland 85
8 ThePearl-Poet
Helen Barr 100
9 William Langland
Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP 116
10 Geoffrey Chaucer
Christiania Whitehead 134
Part III Early Modern153
11 Introduction
Roger Pooley 155
12 Early Modern Women
Elizabeth Clarke 169
13 Early Modern Religious Prose
Julie Maxwell 184
14 Edmund Spenser
Carol V. Kaske 197
15 Mary Sidney
Rivkah Zim 211
16 William Shakespeare
Hannibal Hamlin 225
17 John Donne
Jeanne Shami 239
18 George Herbert
John Drury 254
19 John Milton
Michael Lieb 269
20 John Bunyan
Andrew Bradstock 286
21 John Dryden
Gerard Reedy, S.J. 297
Part IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic311
22 Introduction
Stephen Prickett 313
23 Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers
J. R. Watson 329
24 Daniel Defoe
Valentine Cunningham 345
25 Jonathan Swift
Michael F. Suarez, S.J. 359
26 William Blake
Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland 373
27 Women Romantic Poets
Penny Bradshaw 383
28 William Wordsworth
Deeanne Westbrook 397
29 S. T. Coleridge
Graham Davidson 413
30 Jane Austen
Michael Giffin 425
31 George Gordon Byron
Wolf Z. Hirst 438
32 P. B. Shelley
Bernard Beatty 451
Part V Victorian463
33 Introduction
Elisabeth Jay 465
34 The Brownings
Kevin Mills 482
35 Alfred Tennyson
Kirstie Blair 496
36 The Brontës
Marianne Thormählen 512
37 John Ruskin
Dinah Birch 525
38 George Eliot
Charles LaPorte 536
39 Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth Ludlow 551
40 G. M. Hopkins
Paul S. Fiddes 563
41 Sensation Fiction
Mark Knight 577
42 Decadence
Andrew Tate 587
Part VI Modernist601
43 Introduction
Ward Blanton 603
44 W. B. Yeats
Edward Larrissy 617
45 Virginia Woolf
Douglas L. Howard 629
46 James Joyce
William Franke 642
47 D. H. Lawrence
T. R. Wright 654
48 T. S. Eliot
David Fuller 667
49 The Great War Poets
Jane Potter 681
Index 696
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