The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century [Paperback]

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.

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 Blakes Bartimaeus: Naomi Billingsley.- 4. Fragmented Images of Christ in Romantic Maritime Poetry: Kirsty J. Harris 5.  Miltons 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 Rossettis Ecological Jesus: Emma Mason.- 11.  Reimaging Personhood Before the Figure of Christ in the Victorian Earlc%