The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Hardcover)

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 role and influence on English literature - as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history - from the medieval period up through the 20th 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

General

Imprint:	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	May 2009
Authors:	R Lemon
Dimensions:	249 x 178 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	720
ISBN-13:	978-1-4051-3160-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-4051-3160-8
Barcode:	9781405131605

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