King James Bible after Four Hundred Years (eBook, PDF)

Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences
Redaktion: Hamlin, Hannibal

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

2011 marked 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316097502
• Artikelnr.: 41009015

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.