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PRIEST, R. D., The Gospel According to Renan. Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford University Press, 2015. 278p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Historical Monographs. In this lucid work of deep and imaginative scholarship, Robert D. Priest integrates many of Renan's disparate identities by focusing on his most influential book, The Life of Jesus (1863). [This] is the biography of that biography, beginning with its germination in Renan's mind, continuing through the travail of writing it, and culminating in its reception by both elite and popular audiences and its stunning commercial success ... Priest's fine-grained study successfully illuminates Renan's bestseller as a cultural icon that both reflected and shaped the mentality of its era. Jan Goldstein, American Historical Review |a 08/08/2017 (Publisher's information). € 176.64 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780198728757