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.

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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 06.10.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781442645776
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4577-6
• 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: Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Historiography, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century