Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

Rebecca Lemon is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship. Emma Mason is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2006), Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Mark Knight, 2006), and The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (2009), and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Jonathan Roberts, 2010).Jonathan Roberts is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of William Blake's Poetry (2007), The Bible for Sinners (with Christopher Rowland, 2008), Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. (2010), and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Emma Mason, 2010).Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, including The Nature of New Testament Theology (2006), Revelation Through the Centuries (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is Consultant Editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (edited by Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts, 2010), and together with John Sawyer, Judith Kovacs, and David Gunn, he also edits the Blackwell Bible Commentary series.

"This is indeed a true companion, one that succeeds in its aim of being both scholarly and accessible to all lovers of English literature. In short, all students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university." (Church Times) "Probably what comes across most clearly is how, and that, many of the writers chose deliberately to draw on the Bible, and for students increasingly unfamiliar with the Bible, this approach challenges as well as informs." (Reference Reviews)"An extremely useful volume." (The Year's Work in English Studies)

• List of Contributors ix Part I Introduction 11 General IntroductionRebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts 32 The Literature of the BibleChristopher Rowland 103 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary TheoryDavid Jasper 22Part II Medieval 394 IntroductionDaniel Anlezark 415 Old English PoetryCatherine A. M. Clarke 616 The Medieval Religious LyricDouglas Gray 767 The Middle English MysticsAnnie Sutherland 858 The Pearl-PoetHelen Barr 1009 William LanglandSister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP 11610 Geoffrey ChaucerChristiania Whitehead 134Part III Early Modern 15311 IntroductionRoger Pooley 15512 Early Modern WomenElizabeth Clarke 16913 Early Modern Religious ProseJulie Maxwell 18414 Edmund SpenserCarol V. Kaske 19715 Mary SidneyRivkah Zim 21116 William ShakespeareHannibal Hamlin 22517 John DonneJeanne Shami 23918 George HerbertJohn Drury 25419 John MiltonMichael Lieb 26920 John BunyanAndrew Bradstock 28621 John DrydenGerard Reedy, S.J. 297Part IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic 31122 IntroductionStephen Prickett 31323 Eighteenth-Century Hymn WritersJ. R. Watson 32924 Daniel DefoeValentine Cunningham 34525 Jonathan SwiftMichael F. Suarez, S.J. 35926 William BlakeJonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland 37327 Women Romantic PoetsPenny Bradshaw 38328 William WordsworthDeeanne Westbrook 39729 S. T. ColeridgeGraham Davidson 41330 Jane AustenMichael Giffin 42531 George Gordon ByronWolf Z. Hirst 43832 P. B. ShelleyBernard Beatty 451Part V Victorian 46333 IntroductionElisabeth Jay 46534 The BrowningsKevin Mills 48235 Alfred TennysonKirstie Blair 49636 The BrontësMarianne Thormählen 51237 John RuskinDinah Birch 52538 George EliotCharles LaPorte 53639 Christina RossettiElizabeth Ludlow 55140 G. M. HopkinsPaul S. Fiddes 56341 Sensation FictionMark Knight 57742 DecadenceAndrew Tate 587Part VI Modernist 60143 IntroductionWard Blanton 60344 W. B. YeatsEdward Larrissy 61745 Virginia WoolfDouglas L. Howard 62946 James JoyceWilliam Franke 64247 D. H. LawrenceT. R. Wright 65448 T. S. EliotDavid Fuller 66749 The Great War PoetsJane Potter 681Index 696