The Genesis of fiction : modern novelists as biblical interpreters /
Wright, Terry R.
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: wrestling with the book of Genesis -- Adam, Eve, and the serpent: Mark Twain -- Cain and Abel: John Steinbeck -- From the flood to Babel: Jeanette Winterson -- The sacrifice of Isaac: Jenny Diski -- Rachel and her sisters: Anita Diamant -- Joseph and his brothers: Thomas Mann.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Bible.
American fiction
English fiction
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature