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Title The Oxford handbook of English literature and theology / edited by Andrew Hass, David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 889 pages)
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents 'Now and in England' / Elisabeth Jay -- The study of literature and theology / David Jasper -- Origins in the English tradition / Michael Fox -- Vernacular Bibles and prayer books / Lynne Long -- The Protestant and Catholic Reformations / Brian Cummings -- The Enlightenment / Rhodri Lewis -- Romanticism / Scott Masson -- The influence of German criticism / David E. Klemm -- The Victorians / T.R. Wright -- Modernism / Cleo McNelly Kearns -- Postmodernism / Kevin Hart -- The Bible as literature and sacred text / Peter S. Hawkins -- The Pentateuch / Tod Linafelt -- Judges / Timothy K. Beal -- Psalms / Alastair Hunter -- Song of songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job / Kirsten Nielsen -- Prophetic literature / Yvonne Sherwood -- The synoptic gospels / George Aichele -- The Gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz -- Apocalyptic literature / Christopher Rowland -- Langland and Chaucer / Nicholas Watson -- Shakespeare and Marlowe / Thomas Healy -- Herbert and Donne / Helen Wilcox -- John Milton / Michael Lieb
The eighteenth-century novel / Scott Robertson -- William Blake / Christopher Burdon -- Wordsworth and Coleridge / Simon Bainbridge -- George Eliot and Hardy / Norman Vance -- James Joyce / Valentine Cunningham -- Eliot, David Jones, and Auden / Stephen Medcalf -- Feminist revisioning / Heather Walton -- Cranmer and the collects / Donald Gray -- John Bunyan / Robert G. Collmer -- Bishop Butler / Lori Branch -- Keble and The Christian year / Kirstie Blair -- John Henry Newman / Ian Ker -- Matthew Arnold / Luke Ferretter -- C.S. Lewis / Cath Filmer-Davies -- Liturgy as literature / Bridget Nichols -- Evil and the God of love / Eric Ziolkowski -- Death and the afterlife / Tina Pippin -- Pastoral tradition in religious poetry / David Scott -- The passion story in literature / Paul Fiddes -- Possibilities of redemption through the novel / Daniel Boscaljon -- Body and word / Alison Jasper -- Visions of heaven and hell / Elena Volkova -- Feminism and patriarchy / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Salvation: personal and political / George Newlands -- The future of English literature and theology / Andrew Hass
Summary A volume of essays in which scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology, this work also offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition, and explores great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions
Analysis English literature History and criticism
Religion and literature Great Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013818
Bible fast
Subject Christian literature, English -- History and criticism
Christianity and literature -- Great Britain
Bible and literature.
Theology in literature.
Bible and literature
Christian literature, English
Christianity and literature
Literature
Theology in literature
Christliche Literatur
Literatur
Theologie
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Theologie.
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Hass, Andrew.
Jasper, David.
Jay, Elisabeth.
LC no. 2006038887
ISBN 0199544484
9780199544486
0191577375
9780191577376
Other Titles Handbook of English literature and theology