Origins of Narrative The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible |
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| Author:
| Prickett, Stephen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-88370-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital download and online |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Professor Prickett describes how, during the late eighteenth century, with the decline of formal religion, the prestige of the Bible as a literary and aesthetic model rose to new heights, as it became a novel-like narrative work, an on-going site of re-interpretation, and an all-embracing literary form giving meaning to all other writing.
Professor Prickett describes how, during the late eighteenth century, with the decline of formal religion, the prestige of the Bible as a literary and aesthetic model rose to new heights, as it became a novel-like narrative work, an on-going site of re-interpretation, and an all-embracing literary form giving meaning to all other writing.