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
- Product details
- Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (20 March 2009)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 720 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1405131608
- ISBN-13 : 978-1405131605
- Dimensions : 17.78 x 4.32 x 25.4 cm
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