Book of Job (Old Testament) and American Literature

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AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

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Overview of the influence of the Book of Job on American literary culture. Texts and authors mentioned in passing include King James Bible, Robert Alter's translation of Job, Harold Bloom, Carl Jung, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edward P. Jones's The Known World, poet Emily Dickinson, Pulp Fiction, Hamlet, Casablanca