Author: Frederick Henry Ambrose ScrivenerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students
Author: Frederick Henry Ambrose ScrivenerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Author: Joshua KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814255292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
Author: John Albert BroadusThe Sword of Judith
Author: Kevin R. BrinePublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney LooserPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Lollard Bible and Other Medieval Biblical Versions
Author: Margaret DeaneslyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours
Author: John FiskeSome Jewish Witnesses for Christ
Author: Rev. A. Bernstein B.D.Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465505113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Author: Sir Edward Coke