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Blackwell Companion to the Bib
Contributor(s): Lemon, Rebecca (Editor), Mason, Emma (Editor), Roberts, Jonathan (Editor)
ISBN: 0470674997     ISBN-13: 9780470674994
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $56.00  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
Dewey: 820.938
Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (2.45 lbs) 720 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher 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.
  • 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