Title The historical Jesus and the literary imagination, 1860-1920 / Jennifer Stevens.

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Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : English Association, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (312 pages).
Series	English Association studies ; 3
	English Association studies ; 3.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.
Contents	The Victorians and the Bible -- Nineteenth-century lives of Jesus -- The rise of the fictional Jesus -- The fifth gospel of Oscar Wilde -- The afterlife of Oscar Wilde's oral tales -- A peculiar Protestant : the gospels according to George Moore -- George Moore's life of Jesus.
Summary	Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology.
Note	Print version record.
Language	English.
Subject	Jesus Christ -- In literature.
	Bible -- In literature.
	Christianity in literature.
	Jesus Christ.
	Literature and literary studies.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	Jesus Christ. (OCoLC)fst00040116
	Bible. (OCoLC)fst01356024
	Christianity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00859755
	Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
	Languages & Literatures.
	Literature -- General.
Indexed Term	Multi-User.
Other Form:	Print version: (OCoLC)506252026
ISBN	9781846316159 (electronic bk.)
	1846316154 (electronic bk.)
	9781846314704 (hbk.)
	1846314704 (hbk.)

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