The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

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

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature features in the following genres: Religion and beliefs

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature is available in Paperback

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature was written by Rebecca Lemon and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature has 703 pages

Yes it is part of Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion series

£34.16