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The Real and the Sacred: Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Hardcover. A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLL; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 635.
The figure of Jesus appears as a character in dozens of nineteenth-century novels, including works by Balzac, Flaubert, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and others. The Real and the Sacred focuses in particular on two fiction genres: the Jesus redivivus tale and the Jesus novel. In the former, Christ makes surprise visits to earth, from rural Flanders (Balzac) and Muscovy (Turgenev) to the bustling streets of Paris (Flaubert), Seville (Dostoevsky), Berlin, and Boston. In the latter, the historical Jesus wanders through the picturesque towns and plains of first-century Galilee and Judea, attracting followers and enemies. In short, authors subjected Christ, the second person ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119325
SKU
V9780472119325
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99-15
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Jefferson J. A. Gatrall is Associate Professor of Russian, Montclair State University.
Reviews for The Real and the Sacred: Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
"With admirable succinctness, Gatrall discusses literary portraiture, accusations of pictorial blasphemy in realist paintings, the archaeology and metapoetics of the Christ image, and the diminishing social radicalness of visualising the Gospels. ... [The Real and the Sacred] remains accessible even when taking us into relatively obscure corners of nineteenthcentury realism in its imaginative struggles with the Jesus of history and, ... Read more