Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in cultural and gender theory to reveal close links between the ideology of the movement and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens and Pater. Throughout this book, which also contributes to the critical debate on the body as a site for socio-political conflict, Muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class, and national identity in the Victorian age.
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"Although as multivalent as the movement they address, these essays cohere very well...rendering the collection here much greater than the sum of its parts." Kathyrn Murphy Anderson, College Literature
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This volume focuses on muscular Christianity as a violent, sexist, religious philosophy, containing strong ideological links with the work of mainstream Victorian writers. Throughout this book, muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class and national identity in the Victorian age.
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The movement labeled by its derogators as "muscular Christianity" arose, paradoxically perhaps, among notably liberal men, the Christian Socialists, who had fought for the Chartists, for improvements in living conditions, and even for limited rights for women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Charles Kingsley, Sir Richard, Alton Locke, Edwin Drood, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Christian Socialist, Lucas Malet, Oxford University Press, Christian Socialism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Norman Vance, The Sinews of the Spirit, New Haven, The Water Babies, Yale University Press, Fortnightly Review, The Wages of Sin, Amyas Leigh, Crimean War, The Ideal of Christian Manliness, Cornell University Press, David Rosen, Hereward the Wake New!
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The movement labeled by its derogators as "muscular Christianity" arose, paradoxically perhaps, among notably liberal men, the Christian Socialists, who had fought for the Chartists, for improvements in living conditions, and even for limited rights for women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
muscular spirituality, athletic prizemen, fifth form boys, happy limit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charles Kingsley, Sir Richard, Alton Locke, Edwin Drood, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Christian Socialist, Lucas Malet, Oxford University Press, Christian Socialism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Norman Vance, The Sinews of the Spirit, New Haven, The Water Babies, Yale University Press, Fortnightly Review, The Wages of Sin, Amyas Leigh, Crimean War, The Ideal of Christian Manliness, Cornell University Press, David Rosen, Hereward the Wake New!
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- The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought by Norman Vance on 9 pages
- The Water-Babies by Charles; Rowe, Susan; De Hosson, Ines Kingsley on 8 pages
- Water Babies by Charles Kingsley on 8 pages
- Health and Education (The Works of Charles Kingsley (28 Volumes)) by Charles Kingsley on 7 pages
- Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley on 6 pages
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- Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Patrick R. O'Malley on 6 pages
- Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (Studies in Arthurian and Court) by Jennifer Palmgren on 4 pages
- White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion by Timothy Chandler on page 17, page 118, and page 119
- Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Anna Johnston in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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