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Religion: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text

Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of religion in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that suits your course needs.

Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety. 

Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from The Miracles of the Virgin to Paradise Lost, and from In Memoriam to The Scarlet Letter. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.

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    Introduction: History, Narrative, Culture Before the Norman Conquest and After the Norman Conquest
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    Bede, from Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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    From Early Irish Lyrics, “[Techt do Róim]” (“Going to Rome”) and “[A Bé Find, in rega lim]” (“Fair lady, will you go with me”)
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    Exeter Book Elegies
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    The Dream of the Rood
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    The Cotton Maxims
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    Anon, The Gifts of Men
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    Anon, The Fortunes of Men
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    Aelfric of Eynsham, The Passion of Saint Edmund, King and Martyr
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    Saint Mary of Egypt, The Passing of Mary of Egypt
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    Blickling Homilies, “Homily 10”
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    Judith
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    Exodus
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    Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
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    Miracles of the Virgin
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    From Middle English Lyrics: “Now goth sonne under wod,” “Now skrinketh rose and lily-flour,” Stond well, moder, under Rode,” “I sing of a maiden,” “Adam lay ibounden,” “A god and yet a man”
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    William Langland, from Piers Plowman
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    Chaucer, The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale
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    Thomas Hoccleve, The Blessed Virgin
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    from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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    Julian of Norwich, from A Revelation of Love
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    Margery Kempe, from The Book of Margery Kempe
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    Medieval Volume Contexts: Religious and Spirtual Life
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    Hrsvitha of Ganersheim, Abraham
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    The Service for Representing Adam (Jeu D’Adam)
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    The Quem Quaeritis Ceremony
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    The York Corpus Christi Play: The Crucifixion
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    from The Towneley Plays, “The Creation”
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    The Wakefield Master, The First Shepherds’ Play
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    The Judgment
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    The Chester Adam and Eve, Noah’s Flood (with Biblical source material), The Shepherds
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    The N-Town Plays: Mary Play, The Nativity
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    The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
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    Mankind
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    Everyman
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    From Introduction to the Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century: The Reformation in England
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    Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, The Tower Correspondence, In Context: Thomas More
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    William Tyndale, Tyndale’s English Bible, King James Bible, Geneva Bible, Douay-Rheims Bible
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    Contexts: Religion and Devotional Life
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    Anne Lock, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
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    Gwerful Mechain, Christ’s Suffering
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    The Cornish Ordinalia
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    Lady Jane Grey, Letters, A Certain Prayer
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    Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1
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    Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, from The Psalms of David
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    From Culture: A Portfolio: The Supernatural and the Miraculous
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    In Context: Elizabeth and Catholicism
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    Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
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    Robert Southwell, All Selections
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    Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
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    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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    John Donne, “Hymn to God, My God in My Sickness,” from Holy Sonnets, from Devotions, Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward,” “A Hymn to God the Father”
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    Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam
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    George Herbert, all selections
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    Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici
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    Anne Bradstreet, from Meditations Divine and Moral
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    Henry Vaughan, “Regeneration,” “The World”
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    Richard Crashaw, “Saint Mary Magdalene”
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    John Milton, All selections from Paradise Lost
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    From Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Religion, Government, and Party Politics
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    John Bunyan, from The Pilgrim’s Progress
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    John Dryden, from Religio Laici
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    Contexts: Mind and God, Faith and Science
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    Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
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    William Blake, All Selections
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    Sir William Jones, “Hymn to Narayena”
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    Felicia Hemans, “Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School”
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    Contexts: British Romanticism and the Religious World
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    From Introduction to the Victorian Era: Faith and Doubt
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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.
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    Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”
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    Robert Browning, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb”
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    Robert Browning, “Caliban Upon Setebos”
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    Grace Aguilar, “The Hebrew’s Appeal,” “The Wanderers”
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    Emily Bronte, “My Comforter,” [No coward soul is mine]
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    Arthur Hugh Clough, “Epi-straus-ium,” “’There is no God,’ the Wicked Saith,” “Qui Laborat, Orat,” “Is it true, ye gods, who treat us,” “Easter Day,” “Easter Day II”
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    Matthew Arnold, “Stanzas from The Grande Chartreuse”
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    Matthew Arnold, “East London”
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    Contexts: Religion and Society [Vol. 5]
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    Adelaide Ann Procter, “Thankfulness,” “The Jubilee of 1850” “A Desire” “The Church in 1849” “The Homeless Poor”
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    James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”
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    Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Nympholept,” “Hertha”
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    Gerard Manley Hopkins, All Selections (poetry)
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    Michael Field, The Magdalen, Saint Sebastian, Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod
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    Michael Field, Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod
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    Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem
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    Oscar Wilde, “E Tenebris”
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    Rudyard Kipling, “The Mark of the Beast”
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    Ernest Dowson, “Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration”
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    Thomas Hardy, “Hap”
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    “The Oxen”
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    Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
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    T.S. Eliot, “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar,”
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    The Waste Land
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    “Journey of the Magi”
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