Hanley Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature

Protestant and Catholic Refigurings of the Bible and Christian Tradition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-75185-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

This book describes how Christian sacred geographies were represented in Victorian literature. It demonstrates first how those from the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments had become politically domesticated and psychologically internalised to sustain the Victorian Protestant imaginary in art and literature. It then examines how, following the relocation of the centre of Christendom from Jerusalem to Rome in the Middle Ages, the geographical axis between Rome and Britain had been disrupted during the period of Catholic penalisation but was restored by Emancipation and conversion in the nineteenth century. As a result of these national relocations, a literary atlas of sacred heterotopias, other worlds, was mapped by Protestant and Catholic writers within their industrial-imperialist period. Intended for a primary readership of academics and researchers in the field of Victorian Literature, Religious Studies and History, it focuses on the works of nine writers in a variety of genres, including poetry, novels, art criticism, and historical, literary and theological essays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanley, Keith

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1; Introduction: Sacred Geographies.- Chapter 2: Carlyle’s “Exodus to Houndsditch”.- Chapter 3: Ruskin’s Holy Lands.- Chapter 4: Diasporas of the Book.- Chapter 5: Newman’s “Territory of the Intellect”.- Chapter 6: Victorian Catholic Poets in “No Strange Land”.- Chapter 7: Hopkins and the Ecology of Grace.

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. He has been working on this book for some years since founding and directing two research centres devoted to Wordsworth and Ruskin. He is the founding co-editor, with Greg Kucich, of and his most recent book, (2016), won the Ruskin Society Book Prize in 2017.