The Christian Tradition in English LiteratureZondervan Academic, 30 août 2009 - 512 pages Features:• Wide chronological coverage of English literature, especially texts found in the Norton, Oxford, Blackwell and other standard anthologies• Short, punchy essays that engage with the texts, the critics, and literary and social issues• Background and survey articles• Glossaries of Bible themes, images and narratives• Annotated bibliography and questions for class discussion or personal reflection• Scholarly yet accessible, jargon-free approach – ideal for school and university students, book groups and general readersCreated for readers who may be unfamiliar with the Bible, church history or theological development, it offers an understanding of Christianity’s key concepts, themes, images and characters as they relate to English literature up to the present day. |
Table des matières
James Boswell Life of Johnson | 221 |
Slavery and Freedom | 225 |
James Thomson | 230 |
Thomas Gray | 234 |
William Collins | 238 |
Christopher Smart | 241 |
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village | 244 |
William Cowper | 247 |
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales | 56 |
William Langland Piers Plowman | 62 |
Middle English Lyrics | 68 |
Julian of Norwich | 72 |
Margery Kempe | 76 |
Allegory in the Morality Play and Its Literary Legacy | 80 |
The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play | 84 |
Everyman | 88 |
Sir Thomas Malory Morte Darthur | 91 |
RENAISSANCE REFORMATION AND REPUBLIC | 95 |
The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries | 97 |
Sir Thomas More Utopia | 101 |
The Bible and Prayer Book | 104 |
Edmund Spenser | 113 |
Robert Southwell The Burning Babe | 120 |
Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus | 123 |
William Shakespeare | 128 |
John Donne | 139 |
Aemilia Lanyer | 146 |
Ben Jonson Poems | 150 |
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi | 153 |
Francis Bacon | 157 |
George Herbert | 161 |
Henry Vaughan | 169 |
Richard Crashaw | 175 |
Andrew Marvell Upon Appleton House | 179 |
John Milton | 182 |
THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 189 |
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century | 191 |
John Bunyan | 196 |
Aphra Behn | 200 |
William Congreve The Way of the World | 203 |
Jonathan Swift | 206 |
Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele | 211 |
Alexander Pope Essay on Man | 214 |
Samuel Johnson | 217 |
THE ROMANTICS AND VICTORIANS | 251 |
Romanticism | 253 |
Apocalyptic and the Idea of Jerusalem | 257 |
William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience | 262 |
William Wordsworth | 266 |
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads | 271 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 275 |
Mary Shelley Frankenstein | 280 |
The Victorian Period | 283 |
Thomas Carlyle | 290 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 297 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam | 302 |
Robert Browning | 307 |
Emily Brontë | 313 |
Matthew Arnold | 316 |
Christina Rossetti | 319 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | 322 |
Evolution | 325 |
Industrialism | 328 |
The Woman Question | 332 |
Oscar Wilde | 337 |
George MacDonald | 341 |
Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven | 346 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 349 |
The Twentieth Century | 351 |
Thomas Hardy Poems | 356 |
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness | 360 |
Voices from World War I | 364 |
Wilfred Owen | 369 |
William Butler Yeats | 372 |
James Joyce Ulysses | 375 |
D H Lawrence | 379 |
T S Eliot | 382 |
Samuel Beckett Endgame | 389 |
Edith Sitwell Still Falls the Rain | 392 |
W H Auden Horae Canonicae | 395 |
Philip Larkin Poems | 400 |
The Story Line of the Bible | 417 |
The Relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament | 427 |
Bible Narratives | 456 |
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