Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Creators of English
- 2 From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language
- 3 The King James Bible
- 4 Literary implications of Bible presentation
- 5 The struggle for acceptance
- 6 The Psalter in verse and poetry
- 7 ‘The eloquentest books in the world’
- 8 Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan
- 9 The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible
- 10 Mid-century
- 11 The critical rise of the King James Bible
- 12 Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics
- 13 Literary discussion to mid-Victorian times
- 14 The Revised Version
- 15 ‘The Bible as literature’
- 16 The later reputation of the King James Bible
- 17 The New English Bible
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Biblical Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Creators of English
- 2 From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language
- 3 The King James Bible
- 4 Literary implications of Bible presentation
- 5 The struggle for acceptance
- 6 The Psalter in verse and poetry
- 7 ‘The eloquentest books in the world’
- 8 Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan
- 9 The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible
- 10 Mid-century
- 11 The critical rise of the King James Bible
- 12 Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics
- 13 Literary discussion to mid-Victorian times
- 14 The Revised Version
- 15 ‘The Bible as literature’
- 16 The later reputation of the King James Bible
- 17 The New English Bible
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Biblical Index
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- A History of the English Bible as Literature , pp. v - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000