Origins of Narrative
The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible

"Origins of Narrative is a subtle and complex work, written with great clarity and elegance." Alan P.R. Gregory, Anglican Theological Review

"His book is full of ingenious thinking..." John Pfordresher, Theological Studies

"...it is certain that scholars and students of literature would do well to appropriate Prickett's version of the origins of narrative." David E. Latane, Jr., South Atlantic Review

One can't help but admire the ambitious reach, the energetic enthusiasm, and the adventuresome curiosity that Prickett brings to his enterprise,which seems to have been conducted in detachment from most of the theoretical arguments that have preoccupied Romantic Studies in the past two decades. The vision and methods and breadth of Prickett's approach are impressively original. They have produced a book that illuminates in a variety of new and useful ways the historical interconnections between Biblical hermeneutics and the literary practices and theories that modern European culture has derived from it, a history that still profoundly affects the way we read and write and think about literature. (Robert M Ryan in EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW)

"This is a work of remarkable erudition and subtlety, valuable in its contribution to our understanding of the individual figures and linkages it treats as well as in the way it provokes the reader to further investigation and reflection." Charles M. Wood, Modern Theology