| Description |
397 pages ; 25 cm |
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English language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-374) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: The biblical reader and the shifting horizon of expectations -- The prehistoric English Bible -- In pursuit of a useful Bible : scriptural politics and the English Civil War -- Cracking the foundations : biblical criticism and the Newtonian synthesis -- Streamlined Scriptures : the demystification of the Bible -- The occult Bible : aesthetization and the persistence of the supernatural -- Divine copyright and the apotheosis of the author in eighteenth-century England -- Ten little Israelites : counting out the Bible in Victorian England -- Unsuitable paternity : Darwin, anthropology, and the evolutionist Bible -- Conclusion: The end of a world and the beginning of fundamentalism. |
| Subject |
Bible. English -- Versions -- History.
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Bible. |
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History. |
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Bible -- England -- History.
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England. |
| ISBN |
0300101155 alkaline paper |
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