The Bible and Western Christian Literature: Books and The Book

Stephen Prickett was Regius Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He has previously held positions at Duke University, USA and as Armstrong Browning Librarian at Baylor University, USA.Elisabeth Jay is Professor Emerita of English Literature and former Director of the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Western literature in all periods has been influenced by the Bible, yet the Bible is a closed book to many readers today. They fail to pick up allusions obvious to earlier generations. This series, the brainchild of the late Stephen Prickett and inspired by his distinctive approach, shows how deep biblical influence on literature runs. It affects not only words and phrases, but the deep structures of stories and poems. This is an authoritative and massive resource for all students of Western literature, and a reliable guide to the history of the Bible's reception in the West.

• Volume 1: The Bible and Literature: The Late Classical and Medieval PeriodsEdited by Ian Christopher Levy (Providence College, USA)1: Introduction, Ian Christopher Levy2: From Origen to Jerome, Thomas Scheck3: John Chrysostom and the Homily as Christian Grammatical Instruction, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos4: The Bible and Augustine's Confessions, Michael Cameron5: The Venerable Bede, Scott DeGregorio6: Twelfth-Century Monastic Exegesis, Hugh Feiss, OSB7: The Victorine School, Franklin T. Harkins8: Medieval Rabbinic Exegesis, Yedida Eisenstat9: Biblical Exegesis in the Medieval Universities, Ian Christopher Levy10: Vernacular Biblical Exegesis, Mary Raschko11: The Tongue of Love: Biblical Inspiration in Dante, Paola Nasti Volume 2: The Bible and Literature: The Renaissance and Reformation Periods Edited by Sophie Read (University of Cambridge, UK)1: Introduction, Sophie Read 2: Mega-Bible and Textual Bible: Iconoclasm and the End of Biblical Theater, Michael O’Connell3: Raising the Dead: Robert Southwell, Biblical Poetics, and Prosopopoeia, Hannibal Hamlin4: ‘Reading and Misreading Scripture in English Renaissance Poetry: From Donne to Marvell’, Andrew Hadfield5: ‘Reforming the Arts of Discourse: Rhetoric, Dialectic, and the Maxim of ‘Sola Scriptura’, Katrin Ettenhuber6: Letter and Spirit: Paul, Augustine, Shakespeare, Herbert, Timothy Rosendale7: ‘Coles from thine altar tipp’d theyr tongues with cunning: The Decalogue Poetry of Anne Southwell, Kevin Killeen8: Shakespeare and the Psalms, Beatrice Groves 9: Heroic Adaptations of Genesis 3: Knowledge and Skepticism in Protestant Biblical Epic, Kelly Lehtonen 10: Eden and the Dream of Place in Renaissance England, Sophie Read 11: Rude Scripture, Alison Knight12: The Bible as a Material Book in Early Modern English Culture, Joseph Ashmore Volume 3: The Bible and Literature: Enlightenment to RomanticismEdited by Stephen Prickett (University of Glasgow, UK) with Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University, UK)1: Introduction, David Jasper2: The Hebrew Bible and Romantic Criticism: Robert Lowth and English Poetics, Stephen Prickett3: Transcendental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and the Birth of Modern Theory, Ralf Haekel4: From Evidence to Praise: the Bible in the Age of Newton, Christopher Burdon 5: Rights, Romantic Radicalism, and the Bible, Jan-Melissa Schramm6: ‘Why is The Bible more Entertaining & Instructive than any other Book?’: William Blake and the enhancement of the literary, Christopher Rowland and Susanne Sklar7: Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Bible, and English Literature, Jeffrey W. Barbeau8:Creative Engagement: Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Brontë and the Bible, David Norton9:‘The Most Vivid Poetry’: The Bible and/as Poetry in Shelley and Byron, Ross Wilson10: Mythical, Biblical and Utopian Elements in the Romantic Fairy Tales, Dieter Petzold and Johannes Rüster Volume 4: The Bible and Literature: The Nineteenth Century PeriodEdited by Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University, UK)1: Introduction, Elisabeth Jay 2: Repeating the Bible: Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms, Eric Ziolkowski3: Higher Criticism and its literary impact: Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, Ralf Haekel 4: Science, Literature and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century, Richard England5: Tracts, Scriptures and ‘storied mysteries’: The Bible in the Oxford Movement, Gerard P. Loughlin6: Christology and the Biographical Turn, David Jasper7: Fiction Troubling the Bible, Elisabeth Jay 8: Questioning the Bible in Poetry, CharlesLaPorte 9: The Democratisation of the Bible: Education, Economics, Ecology, Joshua King10: Blasphemy and the Bible, Francis O’Gorman Volume 5: The Bible and Literature: The Modern PeriodEdited by Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, USA)1: Introduction, Kevin Hart2: Secularization and Historical Criticism of the Bible in the Early Twentieth Century: A Genealogy, Adam Wells3:Theological Modernism and the Bible, William C. Hackett4: Literary Modernism and the English Bible, Stephen Cushman5: Poetry since Modernism and the Bible, Henry Weinfield6: Re-Mythologizing Faith: Biblical Fantasy and the Inklings’ Romantic Theology, Michael Tomko7: Phenomenology and Biblical Selfhood, Cassandra Falke8: Literary Criticism and the Bible, Kevin Hart9: Seeking a ‘Phonetic and Semantic Community’ between God and Man: Biblical Poetics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French Literature, Stephen E. Lewis10: The Bible in German Modernism, Vivian Liska11: Teaching the Bible as Literature: A Phenomenological Approach, Elizabeth Sutherland