Victorian Engagements With the Bible and Antiquity - The Shock of the Old

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.

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• Authors: Simon Goldhill, Simon (University of Cambridge) Ravenscr Goldhill, Ruth Jackson Ravencroft
• Assisted by: Simon Goldhill (Editor), Goldhill Simon (Editor), Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009306454
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0930645-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 251 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Religion, Classical texts, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Ancient World, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Ancient Greek and Roman literature