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Index
Cover
Praise for The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion
Title page
Copyright page
Contributors
PART I: Introduction
CHAPTER 1: General Introduction
Literature and Theology
Christianity and Literature
Religion and Literature
The Bible as Literature
“The Bible and Literature”
Note on Terms
CHAPTER 2: The Literature of the Bible
What Is the Bible?
The Bible as Literature
The Biblical Genres
Biblical Hermeneutics
Types of Exegesis
CHAPTER 3: Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory
PART II: Medieval
CHAPTER 4: Introduction
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CHAPTER 5: Old English Poetry
CHAPTER 6: The Medieval Religious Lyric
CHAPTER 7: The Middle English Mystics
CHAPTER 8: The Pearl-Poet
Introduction
Translating the Bible
Social Theology
The Pearl-poet’s Bible
CHAPTER 9: William Langland
Biblical Quotations
Reading Piers Plowman: Two Scholarly Disputes
Bible Stories and Characters
Personifications of the Bible in Piers Plowman
The Influence of Biblical Forms and Styles
Biblical Ideals
Conclusion
CHAPTER 10: Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer’s Biblical Milieu
Serious and Non-ironic References to Scripture in Chaucer’s Poetry
Comic and Ironic References to Scripture in Chaucer’s Poetry
Misuses of Scripture by Chaucerian Characters: (i) Unwitting Misuses
Misuses of Scripture by Chaucerian Characters: (ii) Knowing Clerical Misuses
Misuses of Scripture by Chaucerian Characters: (iii) Knowing Female Misuses
Conclusion
PART III: Early Modern
CHAPTER 11: Introduction
The Availability and Pervasiveness of the Bible
The Paradoxical Death of Biblical Drama
Attacking and Defending Literature from the Bible
Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
The Beginning and End
CHAPTER 12: Early Modern Women
CHAPTER 13: Early Modern Religious Prose
Tyndale and Citation
Southwell and Paraphrase
Donne and the Poetry of Prose
Bunyan and Neobiblicism
CHAPTER 14: Edmund Spenser
CHAPTER 15: Mary Sidney
CHAPTER 16: William Shakespeare
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CHAPTER 17: John Donne
CHAPTER 18: George Herbert
The Praise and Use of Scripture
Scripture the Way into The Temple
Scripture at the Far End of The Temple
Beginnings and Endings
Herbert as Scriptural Maker
Old Testament/New Testament
CHAPTER 19: John Milton
The Psalmist
Biblical Vocation
The Celebrant
Prophetic Milton
The Sonnets
The Trinity College Manuscript
Hebraism versus Hellenism
The Hermeneut
Milton’s Bibles
The Major Poems
Conclusion
CHAPTER 20: John Bunyan
CHAPTER 21: John Dryden
Scriptural Politics
Interpretation
Conclusion
PART IV: Eighteenth Century and Romantic
CHAPTER 22: Introduction
CHAPTER 23: Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers
CHAPTER 24: Daniel Defoe
CHAPTER 25: Jonathan Swift
The Homiletic/Sermonic
The Proverbial
The Jocular
The Mock Biblical
Conclusion
CHAPTER 26: William Blake
CHAPTER 27: Women Romantic Poets
Hannah More
Felicia Hemans
Conclusion
CHAPTER 28: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth’s Parabolic Style
“Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone”
Wordsworth in Babylon
CHAPTER 29: S. T. Coleridge
Nature, the Bible, and the Imagination
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
The Role of Sense Experience
Coleridge Reads Genesis
The Place of Narrative
Study and Prayer
CHAPTER 30: Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
The Prototypical Destiny of the Heroine
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 31: George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold
Beppo
Don Juan
Hebrew Melodies
Cain: A Mystery
CHAPTER 32: P. B. Shelley
Prophecy and History
The Book of Job
Redemption and Hope
Imagination not Faith
PART V: Victorian
CHAPTER 33: Introduction
The Bible as Intertext
The Materiality of Biblical Text
Biblical Criticism and Literature
CHAPTER 34: The Brownings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
CHAPTER 35: Alfred Tennyson
CHAPTER 36: The Brontës
CHAPTER 37: John Ruskin
“That Property of Chapters”: Biblical Reading and Preaching
“A Subject of Thought”: Sacred Texts in Nature and Art
Critical Controversies and Social Polemics
A New Evangelicalism
CHAPTER 38: George Eliot
CHAPTER 39: Christina Rossetti
Williams, Keble, Augustine
Upholding Tradition
Reading the Bible
A Living Scripture
CHAPTER 40: G. M. Hopkins
CHAPTER 41: Sensation Fiction
CHAPTER 42: Decadence
Decadent Scriptures: (Ir)religious Faith at the Fin de Siècle
Out of Darkness: Wilde’s Gospels
PART VI: Modernist
CHAPTER 43: Introduction
Modernity as Theoretical, Axiomatic Autonomy
Modernity as Practical, Institutional Autonomy
Literature as the Cultural Salvation of the Bible in Fragments?
Disenchanting Fragmentation or Magical Collage?
CHAPTER 44: W. B. Yeats
Rose, Cross, and Celtic Christianity
Christ and the Christian Era
Yeats’s Christian Mystery Plays
CHAPTER 45: Virginia Woolf
Bible Study
The Search for Paradise
Literature and Dogma
CHAPTER 46: James Joyce
CHAPTER 47: D. H. Lawrence
Reading the Bible Differently
Adam and Eve Re-Enter Paradise
Christ Crucified and Risen
CHAPTER 48: T. S. Eliot
CHAPTER 49: The Great War Poets
Pastoral Idyll: The Lost Eden
Old Testament Narratives
The Language of the Old Testament
Christ’s Teachings, Suffering, and Sacrifice
The Book of Revelation
Conclusion: Bearing Witness
Index
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