Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity: The Shock of the Old

ISBN-13: 9781009306454 / Angielski

Simon Goldhill; Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

Opis

This is the first book to establish how classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed Victorian ideas of the past, and consequently informed the very construction of modernity. Its multi-disciplinary approach will be valuable to scholars and graduate students in numerous disciplines across the arts and humanities.

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Part I. Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity: The Shock of the Old: 1. Introduction: history, god, and me Simon Goldhill and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft; 2. Genealogy, translation, and resistance: between the bible and the Greeks Simon Goldhill; 3. Herodotus, historian of the Hebrew people, without knowing it Suzanne L. Marchand; 4. The bible, classical antiquity, and the invention of Victorian art at the 1887 Manchester jubilee exhibition Kate Nichols; 5. The classical and biblical in dialogue: a conversation in Victorian sculpture Caroline Vout; 6. Dionysia in Bavaria: Greek Theatre, German Catholicism and the Cultural Uses of the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1830–1910 Robert D. Priest; 7. Popes and Caesars: St Paul, protestant bible culture, and the building of the American episcopal church in Rome G. A. Bremner; 8. Protestant travellers to Rome and the legacies of the apostolic church Dorothy M. Figueira and Brian H. Murray; 9. HMS Bacchante: religion, time travel, and the Victorian monarchy Michael Ledger-Lomas; 10. 'Whoso humbleth himself shall be exalted, whoso exalteth himself shall be abased': F. D. Maurice and the history of philosophy Jocelyn Paul Betts; 11. 'The borderland of the bible': M. R. James, the apocrypha, and Christian antiquity in the late nineteenth century Alison Knight and Scott Mandelbrote; 12. Words thrown out: Matthew Arnold's version of Isaiah Laura McCormick Kilbride; 13. Hellenism, Hebraism and heathenism in nineteenth-century England: Connop Thirlwall, George Grote and the religions of antiquity Brian Young; 14. Epilogue: bible, antiquity, and the shock of the old Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; Index.