The book of books : biblical interpretation, literary culture, and the political imagination from Erasmus to Milton /

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"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 transf...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fulton, Thomas (Thomas Chandler) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > England > History > 16th century.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > England > History > 17th century.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc. > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Bible
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Bible and politics > England > History > 16th century.
Bible and politics > England > History > 17th century.
Bible and literature.
Bible et politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Bible et politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Bible et littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Bible and literature
Bible and politics
English literature > Early modern
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Erasmus's New Testament and the politics of historicism
  • Tyndale's literalism and the laws of Moses
  • New Josiah and Bucer's theocratic utopia
  • Word in exile : the Geneva Bible and its readers
  • Battling Bibles and Spenser's dragon
  • Measure for measure and the new king
  • Milton's Bible and revolutionary Psalm culture
  • Milton contra Tyndale
  • Coda. Legitimating power.

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