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9780521768276

The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences

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    9780521768276

  • ISBN10:

    0521768276

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-01-17
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. vii
List of illustrationsp. viii
List of contributorsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xii
Introduction: The King James Bible and its reception historyp. 1
The Language of the King James Bible
Language within language: the King James steamrollerp. 27
The glories and the glitches of the King James Bible: Ecclesiastes as test-casep. 45
The History of the King James Bible
The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Biblep. 61
Antwerp Bible translations in the King James Biblep. 100
Philip Doddridge's New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56)p. 124
Postcolonial notes on the King James Biblep. 146
From monarchy to democracy: the dethroning of the King James Bible in the United Statesp. 164
Literature and the King James Bible
Milton, anxiety, and the King James Biblep. 181
Bunyan's biblical progressesp. 202
Romantic transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley Blakep. 219
Ruskin and his contemporaries reading the King James Biblep. 234
To the Lighthouse and biblical languagep. 253
The King James Bible as ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Belovedp. 269
The King James Bible and African American literaturep. 294
Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Smart, and the "gifts" of the King James Biblep. 318
Chronology of major English Bible translations to 1957p. 336
Chronology of English Bible translations since 1957p. 338
Select bibliography on the King James Biblep. 342
Index of Bible quotationsp. 356
General indexp. 359
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