The King James Bible After Four Hundred Years : Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences (Hardcover)

Introduction: the King James Bible and its reception history Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones; Part I. The Language of the King James Bible: 1. Language within language: King James' steamroller Stephen Prickett; 2. The glories and the glitches of the King James Bible: Ecclesiastes as test-case Robert Alter; Part II. The History of the King James Bible: 3. The materiality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt; 4. Antwerp Bible translations in the King James Bible Gergely Juhasz; 5. Philip Doddridge's New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739?56) Isabel Rivers; 6. Postcolonial notes on the King James Bible R. S. Sugirtharajah; 7. From monarchy to democracy: the dethroning of the King James Bible in the United States Paul C. Gutjahr; Part III. Literature and the King James Bible: 8. Milton, anxiety, and the King James Bible Jason P. Rosenblatt; 9. Bunyan's biblical progresses Hannibal Hamlin; 10. Romantic transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake Adam Potkay; 11. Ruskin and his contemporaries reading the King James Bible Michael Wheeler; 12. To the Lighthouse and biblical language James Wood; 13. The King James Bible as ghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved Norman W. Jones; 14. The King James Bible and African American literature Katherine Clay Bassard; 15. Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Smart, and the 'gifts' of the King James Bible Heather Walton; Chronology of major English Bible translations to 1957; Chronology of English Bible translations since 1957; King James Bible bibliographies: I. The King James Bible: its background, history, and reception; II. The literary-cultural influence of the King James Bible.