Victorian Jesus - J.r. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity

Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Forgotten Story of Ecce Homo
Chapter 1: Authority and Authorship
Chapter 2: By the Author of Essays on the Church
Chapter 3: Father and Son
Chapter 4: The Victorian Jesus
Chapter 5: A Dangerous Book
Chapter 6: Vomited from the Jaws of Hell
Chapter 7: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Chapter 8: Shrewd Conjecture
Chapter 9: White Lies
Chapter 10: Behold the Man
Chapter 11: Behold the Historian
Chapter 12: Fulfilling a Promise
Chapter 13: By the Author of Ecce Homo
Chapter 14: Remembering the Author of Ecce Homo
Epilogue: Anonymous Publishing and Universal History
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ian Hesketh is an ARC Future Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.

Summary

Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Hesketh
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2017
• EAN: 9781442645776
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4577-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)