Reconstructing literature in an ideological age : a biblical poetics and literary studies from Milton to Burke /
Ritchie, Daniel E.
Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : reconstructing literary studies : a biblical poetics as a response to ideological criticism -- Why can't Gulliver learn? : ancients and moderns in Swift, the Bible, and our time -- Johnson reading literature, Johnson reading the canon of Scripture : the difference between literary pleasure and religious happiness -- Blessing and naming in Genesis and Paradise lost : a biblical poetics as an alternative to ideological feminism -- From Babel to Pentecost : George Psalmanazar's "Formosa," Burke's India, and multiculturalism -- The end of the blessing and its renewal : the Apocalypse, Pope's Dunciad, and deconstruction.
Bible
English literature
Religion and literature.
English literature
Christian literature, English
Christianity and literature
Christianity and literature