The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, theplace of the cross, and the contours of lived experience, was articulated throughthe long nineteenth century. Collectively, the chapters respond to thetheological turn in postmodern thought by asking vital questions about the wayin which representations of Christ shape understandings of personhood and ofthe divine.

Autorenportrait

Elizabeth Ludlow is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Anglia RuskinUniversity, UK. She is the author of Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting withthe Saints (2014) and a number of journal articles. She is currently working on amonograph entitled Prayer and the Body in Nineteenth-Century Womens Writingand a project on nineteenth-century representations of Early Church women.

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