Joshua King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5239-6022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Conferencing, Crisis, and the Profession
This introduction frames the goal of the special issue: to rethink conferencing as a means of navigating challenges in Victorian studies and the profession more broadly. The precipitating event was EVENT 2024, a multisite, reduced-flight, and digitally interconnected conference involving five scholarly associations over the 2024 calendar year. Here, we, the three lead organisers, open by describing the conference and the two halves of this specia…
Child Labour and the Idolatry of Nature in “The Cry of the Children” and A Drama of Exile
The theology of creation underpinning Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s (EBB) protest against child labour in “The Cry of the Children” (1843) has gone largely unnoticed by scholars. The poem portrays child labour as a horrific sign of what ecotheologian Norman Wirzba calls the modern idolatry of nature, the attempt to reduce the world’s meaning to human uses and desires. When shorn of inherent sanctity, “The Cry” implies, all of nature’s bodies, incl…
Evangelical Gothic
Book Review| December 01 2020 Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula and Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel Herbert, ChristopherEvangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to DraculaCharlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019. x + 278 pp. $45 (c), $45 (e-book).Knight, MarkGood Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian NovelColumbu…
"Transatlantic Abolitionist Discourse and the Body of Christ in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
Despite renewed interest in roles played by Christianity in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), few scholars have discussed her treatment of the body of Christ-understood as both the figure of Christ and his body of followers-in her antislavery poem, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". This article argues that "The Runaway Slave" reworks portrayals of the body of Christ in transatlantic abolitionist print culture. It examines the …
John Keble's the Christian Year
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John Keble's the Christian Year
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"Transatlantic Abolitionist Discourse and the Body of Christ in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
Despite renewed interest in roles played by Christianity in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), few scholars have discussed her treatment of the body of Christ-understood as both the figure of Christ and his body of followers-in her antislavery poem, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". This article argues that "The Runaway Slave" reworks portrayals of the body of Christ in transatlantic abolitionist print culture. It examines the …
Child Labour and the Idolatry of Nature in “The Cry of the Children” and A Drama of Exile
The theology of creation underpinning Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s (EBB) protest against child labour in “The Cry of the Children” (1843) has gone largely unnoticed by scholars. The poem portrays child labour as a horrific sign of what ecotheologian Norman Wirzba calls the modern idolatry of nature, the attempt to reduce the world’s meaning to human uses and desires. When shorn of inherent sanctity, “The Cry” implies, all of nature’s bodies, incl…
Evangelical Gothic
Book Review| December 01 2020 Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula and Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel Herbert, ChristopherEvangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to DraculaCharlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019. x + 278 pp. $45 (c), $45 (e-book).Knight, MarkGood Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian NovelColumbu…
Conferencing, Crisis, and the Profession
This introduction frames the goal of the special issue: to rethink conferencing as a means of navigating challenges in Victorian studies and the profession more broadly. The precipitating event was EVENT 2024, a multisite, reduced-flight, and digitally interconnected conference involving five scholarly associations over the 2024 calendar year. Here, we, the three lead organisers, open by describing the conference and the two halves of this specia…
Reading comprehension
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