Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Christ and the Romantics 1
Part 1 The Problems of a Godless World
1 The Immortal Evening: The Spiritual Hinge of History 23
2 Who's There? Hamlet and the Problem of Unbelief 43
3 Unhallowed Arts: Frankenstein and the Problem of Science 61
4 To Reign in Hell: Paradise Lost and the Problem of Radical Politics 94
Part 2 The Journey Toward Solutions
5 The Gate to the Garden: Lyrical Ballads and the Reconstruction of the Soul 115
6 The Songs of Spring: Keats's Odes and Reconstructing Eternity 142
Part 3 Reconstructing Jesus
7 A Romantic Meditation on the Gospels 167
1 The Word Made Flesh: Jesus versus Unbelief 167
2 Born of a Virgin: Jesus, Humanity, and the Eternal Feminine 175
3 Believe the Works: Jesus versus Scientific Materialism 186
4 The Kingdom of Heaven: Jesus versus Radical Politics 197
5 The Sermon on the Mount: Jesus and the Soul 214
6 The End: Jesus and Eternity 223
Epilogue: The Road to Emmaus; Everything Becomes Literature 229
Notes 235
Selected Bibliography 251