The King James Bible after 400 years : literary, linguistic, and cultural influences / edited by Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones.
2010
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Title
The King James Bible after 400 years : literary, linguistic, and cultural influences / edited by Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones.
Created/published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description
xi, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Summary
"2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. No other book has been as vital to the development of English writing or indeed to the English language itself. This major collection of essays is the most complete one-volume exploration of the King James Bible and its influence to date. The chapters are written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, who examine the creation of the King James Bible as a work of translation and as a linguistic and literary accomplishment. They consider how it differed from the Bible versions which preceded it, and assess its broad cultural impact and precise literary influence over the centuries of writing which followed, in English and American literature, until today. The story will fascinate readers who approach the King James Bible from the perspectives of literary, linguistic, religious or cultural history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-355) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: the King James Bible and its reception history / Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones
Part I. The Language of the King James Bible. Language within language: King James' steamroller / Stephen Prickett
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. The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible / John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt
Antwerp Bible translations in the King James / Bible Gergely Juhász
Philip Doddridge's New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) /Isabel Rivers
Postcolonial notes on the King James Bible / R. S. Sugirtharajah
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. Milton, anxiety, and the King James Bible / Jason P. Rosenblatt
Bunyan's Biblical progresses / Hannibal Hamlin
Romantic transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake / Adam Potkay
Ruskin and his contemporaries reading the King James Bible / Michael Wheeler
To the Lighthouse and Biblical language / James Wood
The King James Bible as ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved / Norman W. Jones
The King James Bible and African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard
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.
Part I. The Language of the King James Bible. Language within language: King James' steamroller / Stephen Prickett
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. The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible / John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt
Antwerp Bible translations in the King James / Bible Gergely Juhász
Philip Doddridge's New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) /Isabel Rivers
Postcolonial notes on the King James Bible / R. S. Sugirtharajah
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. Milton, anxiety, and the King James Bible / Jason P. Rosenblatt
Bunyan's Biblical progresses / Hannibal Hamlin
Romantic transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake / Adam Potkay
Ruskin and his contemporaries reading the King James Bible / Michael Wheeler
To the Lighthouse and Biblical language / James Wood
The King James Bible as ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved / Norman W. Jones
The King James Bible and African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard
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.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
Item Details
Call number
BS186 .K56 2010