Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
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 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.