Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature

Keith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. He has been working on this book for some years since founding and directing two research centres devoted to Wordsworth and Ruskin. He is the founding co-editor, with Greg Kucich, of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal and his most recent book, John Ruskin's Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings (2016), won the Ruskin Society Book Prize in 2017.

• Chapter 1; Introduction: Sacred Geographies.- Chapter 2: Carlyle’s “Exodus to Houndsditch”.- Chapter 3: Ruskin’s Holy Lands.- Chapter 4: Diasporas of the Book.- Chapter 5: Newman’s “Territory of the Intellect”.- Chapter 6: Victorian Catholic Poets in “No Strange Land”.- Chapter 7: Hopkins and the Ecology of Grace.