The Book of Books: Biblical interpretation, literary culture, and the political imagination from Erasmus to Milton
In The Book of Books, Thomas Fulton charts the process of recovery, interpretation, and reuse of scripture in early modern English literary culture, exploring the uses of the Bible as a combination of text and paratext that revolved around sites of social controversy and was continually transformed...
| Résumé: | In The Book of Books, Thomas Fulton charts the process of recovery, interpretation, and reuse of scripture in early modern English literary culture, exploring the uses of the Bible as a combination of text and paratext that revolved around sites of social controversy and was continually transformed for political purposes. Cover -- THE BOOK OF BOOKS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Texts -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Erasmus's New Testament and the Politics of Historicism -- Chapter 2. Tyndale's Literalism and the Laws of Moses -- Chapter 3. A New Josiah and Bucer's Theocratic Utopia -- Chapter 4. The Word in Exile: The Geneva Bible and Its Readers -- Chapter 5. Battling Bibles and Spenser's Dragon -- Chapter 6. Measure for Measure and the New King -- Chapter 7. Milton's Bible and Revolutionary Psalm Culture -- Chapter 8. Milton Contra Tyndale -- Coda. Legitimating Power -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Biblical Index -- General Index -- Acknowledgments. |
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| ISBN: | 0812297660 |