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  • Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature

    Protestant and Catholic Refigurings of the Bible and Christian Tradition

    by Keith Hanley ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

    Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary

    by Keith Hanley ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.It surveys the imaginative relocation of Jerusalem and Rome to real and present places, thereby creating the nation's sacred ... Read more

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  • Persistent Ruskin

    Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

    by Keith Hanley ...
    Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, ... Read more

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  • Constructing Cultural Tourism

    John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze

    Series Book 25 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development of cultural tourism which was probably as significant as that, for example, of his ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Worlds

    Global formations past and present

    Edited by Keith Hanley, Greg Kucich ...
    This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century of forms of global experience that have developed more recently into rapidly expanding processes of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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    Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican. Moving away from the emphasis on either a monolithic Protestantism ... Read more

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  • Graveyard Poetry

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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