The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences

Abstract

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.