Overview

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.

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“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)​

“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)​

Author Information

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.

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