Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity : the shock of the old / edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldhill, Simon, editor.

Jackson Ravenscroft, Ruth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--19th century.

Bible.

Classicism--United States--History--19th century.

Classicism.

Classicism--England--History--19th century.

Civilization, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 458 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned, multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of Victorian thinking about the past and how important these models of antiquity were in the expression of modernity. In an age of progress, cultural anxiety and cultural hope was fuelled by the shock of the old - new discoveries about the deep past, and new ways of thinking about humanity's place in history. The volume provides a rich and readable feast which will be fundamental to all those seeking a greater understanding of the Victorians, as well as of the reception of classics and the Bible.

Contents:

Introduction : history, God, and me / Simon Goldhill and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

Genealogy, translation, and resistance : between the Bible and the Greeks / Simon Goldhill

Herodotus, historian of the Hebrew people, without knowing it / Suzanne L. Marchand

The Bible, classical antiquity, and the invention of Victorian art at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition / Kate Nichols

The classical and biblical in dialogue : a conversation in Victorian sculpture / Caroline Vout

Dionysia in Bavaria : Greek theatre, German Catholicism and the cultural uses of the Oberammeragau passion play, 1830-1910 / Robert D. Priest

Popes and caesars : St Paul, protestant Bible culture, and the building of the American Episcopal Church in Rome / G.A. Bremner

Protestant travellers to Rome and the legacies of the Apostrolic Church / Dorothy M. Figueira and Brian H. Murray

HMS Baccfhante : religion, time travel, and the Victorian monarchy / Michael Ledger-Lomas

"Whoso Humbleth himself shall be exalted, whoso exalteth himself shall be abased" : F.D. Maurice and the history of philosophy / Jocelyn Paul Betts

"The borderland of the Bible" : M.R. James, the apocrypha and Christian antiquity in the late nineteenth century / Alison Knight and Scott Mandelbrote

Words thrown out : Matthew Arnold's version of Isaih / Laura McCormick Kilbride

Hellenism, hebraism and heathenism in nineteenth-century England : Connop Thirlwall, George Grote and the religions of antiquity / Brian Young

Epilogue : Bible, antiquity, and the shock of the old / Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009306430 (ebook)

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