Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Part I Introduction 1
1 General Introduction Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts 3
2 The Literature of the Bible Christopher Rowland 10
3 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory David Jasper 22
Part II Medieval 39
4 Introduction Daniel Anlezark 41
5 Old English Poetry Catherine A. M. Clarke 61
6 The Medieval Religious Lyric Douglas Gray 76
7 The Middle English Mystics Annie Sutherland 85
8 The Pearl-Poet Helen Barr 100
9 William Langland Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP 116
10 Geoffrey Chaucer Christiania Whitehead 134
Part III Early Modern 153
11 Introduction Roger Pooley 155
12 Early Modern Women Elizabeth Clarke 169
13 Early Modern Religious Prose Julie Maxwell 184
14 Edmund Spenser Carol V. Kaske 197
15 Mary Sidney Rivkah Zim 211
16 William Shakespeare Hannibal Hamlin 225
17 John Donne Jeanne Shami 239
18 George Herbert John Drury 254
19 John Milton Michael Lieb 269
20 John Bunyan Andrew Bradstock 286
21 John Dryden Gerard Reedy, S.J. 297
Part IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic 311
22 Introduction Stephen Prickett 313
23 Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers J. R. Watson 329
24 Daniel Defoe Valentine Cunningham 345
25 Jonathan Swift Michael F. Suarez, S.J. 359
26 William Blake Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland 373
27 Women Romantic Poets Penny Bradshaw 383
28 William Wordsworth Deeanne Westbrook 397
29 S. T. Coleridge Graham Davidson 413
30 Jane Austen Michael Giffin 425
31 George Gordon Byron Wolf Z. Hirst 438
32 P. B. Shelley Bernard Beatty 451
Part V Victorian 463
33 Introduction Elisabeth Jay 465
34 The Brownings Kevin Mills 482
35 Alfred Tennyson Kirstie Blair 496
36 The Brontës Marianne Thormählen 512
37 John Ruskin Dinah Birch 525
38 George Eliot Charles LaPorte 536
39 Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Ludlow 551
40 G. M. Hopkins Paul S. Fiddes 563
41 Sensation Fiction Mark Knight 577
42 Decadence Andrew Tate 587
Part VI Modernist 601
43 Introduction Ward Blanton 603
44 W. B. Yeats Edward Larrissy 617
45 Virginia Woolf Douglas L. Howard 629
46 James Joyce William Franke 642
47 D. H. Lawrence T. R. Wright 654
48 T. S. Eliot David Fuller 667
49 The Great War Poets Jane Potter 681
Index 696
