Censorship and the representation of the sacred in nineteenth-century England

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Censorship and the representation of the sacred in nineteenth-century England

Jan-Melissa Schramm

Oxford University Press, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index

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  • Introduction : representing the sacred in nineteenth-century England
  • Censorship and sacred drama : policing the performance of incarnational art
  • The art of the people : romanticism, the ritual year, and the rediscovery of the mystery plays
  • '[T]o see the work of God/achieved for others' : sacrifice, (self)-censorship, and sacred closet drama
  • Ecce homo, 'real presence', and the word made flesh : the drama of the incarnation in Victorian literature
  • Homo ludens : the Oberammergau Passionsspiele and tragic 'play' at fin-de-siècle
  • A study in repetition and revival : Jerrold, Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, and the case of Thomas à Becket
  • Conclusion : on tragedy in the nineteenth century

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