Rewriting the Word: American Women Writers and the Bible

by Amy Benson Brown

Women writers have often felt alienated from both the Bible and the canonical literary tradition that has been built on its foundation. Yet contemporary American women writers seem to be as haunted by the Bible as their nineteenth-century predecessors. This study of feminist biblical revision argues that women writers' contentious dialogues with the Bible ultimately reconstruct the writers' own basis of authority. The author traces the evolution of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313308659
• ISBN13: 9780313308659
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"