Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible

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June 2011

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Priscilla Wald

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Book Review| June 01 2011

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible

. By Robert Alter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.

Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction

. By Douglas Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi, 379 pp. $55.00.

Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible

. By Katherine Clay Bassard. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2009. viii, 166 pp. $44.95.

Claudia Stokes

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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.

https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266117

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