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The Christian tradition in English literature : poetry, plays, and shorter prose

Print Book, English, 2007
Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Mich., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
512 Seiten ; 23 cm
9780310255154, 0310255155
237144241

The Christian Tradition in English Literature

Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose
By Paul Cavill Heather Ward Matthew Baynham Andrew Swinford

Zondervan

Copyright © 2007 Paul Cavill and Heather Ward
All right reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-310-25515-4

Contents

Preface....................................................................................................................................................13Introduction: How to Use This Book.........................................................................................................................15Abbreviations and Bibliography.............................................................................................................................17SECTION 1: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD1 | Overview: The Middle Ages..............................................................................................................................212 | Bede and C��dmon's Hymn.................................................................................................................................263 | The Dream of the Rood..................................................................................................................................294 | Beowulf................................................................................................................................................325 | The Old English Elegies: The Wanderer and The Wife's Lament............................................................................................366 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and French Legendary Histories...............................................................................................407 | The Medieval Beast Fable: Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale, and Robert Henryson's  The Cock and the Fox.....................448 | Ancrene Riwle..........................................................................................................................................489 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight........................................................................................................................5210 | Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales................................................................................................................5611 | William Langland, Piers Plowman.......................................................................................................................6212 | Middle English Lyrics.................................................................................................................................6813 | Julian of Norwich.....................................................................................................................................7214 | Margery Kempe.........................................................................................................................................7615 | Allegory in the Morality Play and Its Literary Legacy.................................................................................................8016 | Mystery Plays: The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play...................................................................................................8417 | Everyman..............................................................................................................................................8818 | Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur......................................................................................................................91SECTION 2: RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND REPUBLIC1 | Overview: The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries................................................................................................972 | Sir Thomas More, Utopia................................................................................................................................1013 | The Bible and Prayer Book..............................................................................................................................1044 | Edmund Spenser.........................................................................................................................................1135 | Robert Southwell, 'The Burning Babe'...................................................................................................................1206 | Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus....................................................................................................................1237 | William Shakespeare....................................................................................................................................1288 | John Donne.............................................................................................................................................1399 | Aemilia Lanyer.........................................................................................................................................14610 | Ben Jonson, Poems.....................................................................................................................................15011 | John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi....................................................................................................................15312 | Francis Bacon.........................................................................................................................................15713 | George Herbert........................................................................................................................................16114 | Henry Vaughan.........................................................................................................................................16915 | Richard Crashaw.......................................................................................................................................17516 | Andrew Marvell, 'Upon Appleton House'.................................................................................................................17917 | John Milton...........................................................................................................................................182SECTION 3: THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY1 | Overview: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century...................................................................................................1912 | John Bunyan............................................................................................................................................1963 | Aphra Behn.............................................................................................................................................2004 | William Congreve, The Way of the World.................................................................................................................2035 | Jonathan Swift.........................................................................................................................................2066 | Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele..................................................................................................................2117 | Alexander Pope, Essay on Man...........................................................................................................................2148 | Samuel Johnson.........................................................................................................................................2179 | James Boswell, Life of Johnson.........................................................................................................................22110 | Slavery and Freedom...................................................................................................................................22511 | James Thomson.........................................................................................................................................23012 | Thomas Gray...........................................................................................................................................23413 | William Collins.......................................................................................................................................23814 | Christopher Smart.....................................................................................................................................24115 | Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village'..............................................................................................................24416 | William Cowper........................................................................................................................................247SECTION 4: THE ROMANTICS AND VICTORIANS1 | Overview: Romanticism..................................................................................................................................2532 | Apocalyptic and the Idea of Jerusalem..................................................................................................................2573 | William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience.......................................................................................................2624 | William Wordsworth.....................................................................................................................................2665 | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads........................................................................................2716 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.............................................................................................2757 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.............................................................................................................................2808 | Overview: The Victorian Period.........................................................................................................................2839 | Thomas Carlyle.........................................................................................................................................29010 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning............................................................................................................................29711 | Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam.....................................................................................................................30212 | Robert Browning.......................................................................................................................................30713 | Emily Bront��..........................................................................................................................................31314 | Matthew Arnold........................................................................................................................................31615 | Christina Rossetti....................................................................................................................................31916 | Gerard Manley Hopkins.................................................................................................................................32217 | Evolution.............................................................................................................................................32518 | Industrialism.........................................................................................................................................32819 | The Woman Question....................................................................................................................................33220 | Oscar Wilde...........................................................................................................................................33721 | George MacDonald......................................................................................................................................34122 | Francis Thompson, 'The Hound of Heaven'...............................................................................................................346SECTION 5: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY1 | Overview: The Twentieth Century........................................................................................................................3512 | Thomas Hardy, Poems....................................................................................................................................3563 | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.......................................................................................................................3604 | Voices from World War I................................................................................................................................3645 | Wilfred Owen...........................................................................................................................................3696 | William Butler Yeats...................................................................................................................................3727 | James Joyce, Ulysses...................................................................................................................................3758 | D.H. Lawrence..........................................................................................................................................3799 | T.S. Eliot.............................................................................................................................................38210 | Samuel Beckett, Endgame...............................................................................................................................38911 | Edith Sitwell, 'Still Falls the Rain'.................................................................................................................39212 | W.H. Auden, 'Horae Canonicae'.........................................................................................................................39513 | Philip Larkin, Poems..................................................................................................................................40014 | Edna O'Brien, Sister Imelda...........................................................................................................................40515 | Patrick Kavanagh......................................................................................................................................409SECTION 6: THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION1 | The Story Line of the Bible............................................................................................................................4172 | The Relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament.......................................................................................4273 | Christian History and Theology.........................................................................................................................4344 | Hymnody................................................................................................................................................448SECTION 7: GLOSSARY1 | Bible Narratives.......................................................................................................................................4562 | Christian Themes.......................................................................................................................................4673 | Christian Terms........................................................................................................................................479Index......................................................................................................................................................495


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