The King James Bible After 400 Years

Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences
Herausgeber: Hamlin, Hannibal; Jones, Norman W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780521768276
• ISBN-10: 0521768276
• Artikelnr.: 31192509

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the King James Bible and its reception history Hannibal
Hamlin and Norman W. Jones; Part I. The Language of the King James Bible:
1. Language within language: King James' steamroller Stephen Prickett; 2.
The glories and the glitches of the King James Bible: Ecclesiastes as
test-case Robert Alter; Part II. The History of the King James Bible: 3.
The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to
the King James Bible John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt; 4. Antwerp Bible
translations in the King James Bible Gergely Juhász; 5. Philip Doddridge's
New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) Isabel Rivers; 6.
Postcolonial notes on the King James Bible R. S. Sugirtharajah; 7. From
monarchy to democracy: the dethroning of the King James Bible in the United
States Paul C. Gutjahr; Part III. Literature and the King James Bible: 8.
Milton, anxiety, and the King James Bible Jason P. Rosenblatt; 9. Bunyan's
biblical progresses Hannibal Hamlin; 10. Romantic transformations of the
King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake Adam Potkay; 11. Ruskin and
his contemporaries reading the King James Bible Michael Wheeler; 12. To the
Lighthouse and biblical language James Wood; 13. The King James Bible as
ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved Norman W. Jones; 14. The King James
Bible and African American literature Katherine Clay Bassard; 15. Jean
Rhys, Elizabeth Smart, and the 'gifts' of the King James Bible Heather
Walton; Chronology of major English Bible translations to 1957; Chronology
of English Bible translations since 1957; King James Bible bibliographies:
I. The King James Bible: its background, history, and reception; II. The
literary-cultural influence of the King James Bible.