Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible
During the later eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as historical criticism suggested that the Bible's text was neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact became a paradigm of all literature. Not merely was English, German and French Romanticism steeped in Biblical references of a new kind, but theories of literature and...
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An examination of the rise in prestige of the Bible as a literary and aesthetic model during the late eighteenth century.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Pt. IJacob's Blessing91The stolen birthright112The presence of the past52Pt. IIThe Romantic Bible1053The Bible as novel1074The Bible and history: appropriating the Revolution1525The Bible as metatype: Jacob's ladder1806Hermeneutic and narrative: the story of self-consciousness222Epilogue264Bibliography269Index281
