Jesus In The Victorian Novel

This book tells the story of how nineteenthcentury writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Reworkings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley George Eliot Eliza Lynn Linton and Mary Augusta Ward however demonstrate