The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose

Heather Ward, Andrew Swinford, Roger Pooley

Zondervan, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 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.

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Contents

• Preface: 13
• How to Use This Book: 15
• Abbreviations and Bibliography: 17
• THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD: 19
• The Middle Ages: 21
• Bede and Cædmons Hymn: 26
• The Dream of the Rood: 29
• Beowulf: 32
• The Wanderer and The Wifes Lament: 36
• The AngloSaxon Chronicle and French Legendary Histories: 40
• Marie de France Geoffrey Chaucers The Nuns Priests Tale and Robert Henrysons The Cock and the Fox: 44
• Ancrene Riwle: 48
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 52
• 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 ofMalfi: 153
• Francis Bacon: 157
• George Herbert: 161
• Henry Vaughan: 169
• Richard Crashaw: 175
• Andrew Marvell Upon Appleton House: 179
• The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: 182
• ECTION: 189
• 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
• 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
• Romanticism: 253
• Apocalyptic and the Idea of Jerusalem: 257
• William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience: 262
• 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
• SECTION: 348
• ECTION: 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
• SECTION: 410
• The Story Line of the Bible: 417
• The Relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament: 427
• SECTION: 450
• Bible Narratives: 456

About the author

Paul Cavill is a lecturer in English and research fellow for the English Place-Name Society for School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is also the author of Anglo-Saxon Christianity and Vikings. He resides in Leicester, England, with his wife and their two children.

Heather Ward (PhD, University of Nottingham) is author of Giving Yourself Away (Grove Publications, 1988), The Gift of Self (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990), and Streams in Dry Land (Eagle, 1993). She has taught English at the University of Nottingham, and Ockbrook and Rodney Schools. She lives in Nottingham, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose
• Authors: Heather Ward, Andrew Swinford, Roger Pooley
• Contributors: Paul Cavill, Matthew Baynham, John Flood
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Zondervan, 2007
• ISBN: 0310255155, 9780310255154
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts