The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century

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.

Reflects on the prominent place of Christianity in nineteenth century culture Discusses a variety of works across the nineteenth century, and addresses how the approaches in representation differ

Auteur
Elizabeth Ludlow is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Anglia Ruskin

University, UK. She is the author of Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with

the Saints (2014) and a number of journal articles. She is currently working on a

monograph entitled Prayer and the Body in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

and a project on nineteenth-century representations of Early Church women.

Résumé
"A particular strength of the volume is its determinedly dialogical rather than oppositional approach across its contributions. ... This volume is impressive in its inclusion of insights from disability studies, Chartism ... and affect theory in its exploration of Christ in the lived religion of its nineteenth-century subjects. By avoiding issues raised by Higher Criticism and the Quest for the historical Jesus ... it breaks new ground."(Alison Jack, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

Contenu

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.