Overview
- Explores nineteenth-century Britain’s engagement with the Holy Land
- Analyses visual and textual sources by three artists, David Roberts, David Wilkie and William Holman Hunt, to understand British motivations and attitudes towards the Near East
- Argues that intellectual shifts in Protestantism during this period were significant influences on the creation of a new visual culture, which in turn informed theology
Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)
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This book demonstrates the complexity of nineteenth-century Britain’s engagement with Palestine and its surrounds through the conceptual framing of the region as the Holy Land. British engagement with the region of the Near East in the nineteenth century was multi-faceted, and part of its complexity was exemplified in the powerful relationship between developing and diverse Protestant theologies, visual culture and imperial identity. Britain’s Holy Land was visualised through pictorial representation which helped Christians to imagine the land in which familiar Bible stories took place. This book explores ways in which the geopolitical Holy Land was understood as embodying biblical land, biblical history and biblical typology. Through case studies of three British artists, David Roberts, David Wilkie and William Holman Hunt, this book provides a nuanced interpretation of some of the motivations, religious perspectives, attitudes and behaviours of British Protestants in their relationship with the Near East at the time.
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Reviews
“Burritt’s book is elegantly written and deeply informative. It is an excellent addition to the series of publications by Palgrave Macmillan on 'Britain and the World.’” (Nabil Matar, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)
“Visualising Britain’s Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century offers a helpful new way to look at the relationship between nineteenth century Britain and the Holy Land. … Burritt’s book will therefore be of interest not only to students and scholars of art, religion, or colonialism in the nineteenth century, but also to those looking at the roots of contemporary Christian attitudes toward Israel and Palestine.” (Andrew Crome, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)
“Visualising Britain’s Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century offers a helpful new way to look at the relationship between nineteenth century Britain and the Holy Land. … Burritt’s book will therefore be of interest not only to students and scholars of art, religion, or colonialism in the nineteenth century, but also to those looking at the roots of contemporary Christian attitudes toward Israel and Palestine.” (Andrew Crome, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amanda M. Burritt is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. After extensive experience in secondary school teaching and museum education she completed a PhD in History at Monash University, Australia. She also has academic qualifications in Art History, Theology and Education, and is particularly interested in the relationship between theology, cultural history and visual culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visualising Britain’s Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Amanda M. Burritt
Series Title: Britain and the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41261-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41260-9Published: 12 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41263-0Published: 12 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41261-6Published: 11 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-7182
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 239
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural History, History of Religion, History of Britain and Ireland, History of the Middle East, Fine Arts