Full Description
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of
ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, the
place of the cross, and the contours of lived experience, was articulated through
the long nineteenth century. Collectively, the chapters respond to the
theological turn in postmodern thought by asking vital questions about the way
in which representations of Christ shape understandings of personhood and of
the divine.
Contents
1. Introduction: Confronting the Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century: Elizabeth Ludlow.- 2. Blake, Enoch and the Emergence of the Apocalyptic Christ: Christopher Rowland.- 3. "As the Eye is formed": Seeing as Christ in Blake's Bartimaeus: Naomi Billingsley.- 4. Fragmented Images of Christ in Romantic Maritime Poetry: Kirsty J. Harris 5. Milton's Christ and Passive Power in Melville and Turner: Laura Fox Gill.- 6. "Real visions of real things": The Light of the World, Incarnation and Popular Culture: Andrew Tate.- 7. Tennyson, Lacan and the Raising of Lazarus: Valerie Purton.- 8. Tractarian Reserve and the Veiled Figure of Christ: Ascension, Mystery, and the Limits of Imagination: Ralph Norman.- 9. The Masculinity of Jesus and the Doctrine of the Real Presence: Carol Engelhardt Herringer.- 10. Considering the Lilies: Christina Rossetti's Ecological Jesus: Emma Mason.- 11. Reimaging Personhood Before the Figure of Christ in the Victorian Early Christian Novel: Elizabeth Ludlow.- 12. "The Sanctity of Our Sex": Refiguring the Fallen Woman and the Passion of Christ in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854-5): Jo Carruthers.- 13. "Our Ordinary Lot": The Cross, the Crutch, and the Theology of Disability in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge: Clare Walker Gore.- 14. The Godlike Nazarene and the People-Christ: The Figure of Christ in the Chartist Imaginary: Mike Sanders.- 15. "Strauss-sick"? Jesus and the Saints in the Church of the Future: Gareth Atkins.- 16. Christly Children, Affect, and the Melodramatic Mode in Late-Victorian Fiction: Leanne Waters.- 17. "Jesus and Pan held sway together": Christological Resonances in Edmund Gosse's The Secret of Narcisse: A Romance (1892): Kathy Rees.
