Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature: Protestant and Catholic Refigurings of the Bible and Christian Tradition

by Keith Hanley

This book describes how Christian sacred geographies were represented in Victorian literature. It demonstrates first how those from the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments had become politically domesticated and psychologically assimilated to sustain the Victorian Protestant imagination in art and literature. It then examines how, following the relocation of the centre of Christendom from Jerusalem to Rome in the Middle Ages, the geographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031751841
• ISBN13: 9783031751844
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan