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The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and
time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to
explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the
Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to
Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned,
multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of
Victorian thinking about the past and how important these models of
antiquity were in the expression of modernity. In an age of
progress, cultural anxiety and cultural hope was fuelled by the
shock of the old – new discoveries about the deep past, and new
ways of thinking about humanity's place in history. The volume
provides a rich and readable feast which will be fundamental to all
those seeking a greater understanding of the Victorians, as well as
of the reception of classics and the Bible.
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