The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences
by Edited by Hannibal Hamlin , Norman W. JonesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-01-17
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. vii |
| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| List of contributors | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Introduction: The King James Bible and its reception history | p. 1 |
| The Language of the King James Bible | |
| Language within language: the King James steamroller | p. 27 |
| The glories and the glitches of the King James Bible: Ecclesiastes as test-case | p. 45 |
| The History of the King James Bible | |
| The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible | p. 61 |
| Antwerp Bible translations in the King James Bible | p. 100 |
| Philip Doddridge's New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) | p. 124 |
| Postcolonial notes on the King James Bible | p. 146 |
| From monarchy to democracy: the dethroning of the King James Bible in the United States | p. 164 |
| Literature and the King James Bible | |
| Milton, anxiety, and the King James Bible | p. 181 |
| Bunyan's biblical progresses | p. 202 |
| Romantic transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley Blake | p. 219 |
| Ruskin and his contemporaries reading the King James Bible | p. 234 |
| To the Lighthouse and biblical language | p. 253 |
| The King James Bible as ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved | p. 269 |
| The King James Bible and African American literature | p. 294 |
| Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Smart, and the "gifts" of the King James Bible | p. 318 |
| Chronology of major English Bible translations to 1957 | p. 336 |
| Chronology of English Bible translations since 1957 | p. 338 |
| Select bibliography on the King James Bible | p. 342 |
| Index of Bible quotations | p. 356 |
| General index | p. 359 |
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