The historical Jesus and the literary imagination, 1860-1920
By: Jennifer Stevens
Series: English Association studies -- 3
Publisher: Liverpool University Press; English Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781846314704
Subjects: In literature; Christianity in literature; Bible
Description: Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contmporary literature and in the popular imagination. This text looks back further to the late-19th and early-20th centuries, when the patterns of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-303) and index.