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Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian Age, edited by Donald E. Hall

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Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideological links between Muscular Christianity and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens, Hughes, MacDonald, and Pater, and to explore the use of images of hyper-masculinised male bodies to represent social as well as physical ideals. Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society. Throughout, Muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class, and national identity in the Victorian age
Language
eng
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Extent
xiii, 244 pages
Contents
  • Muscular Christianity: reading and writing the male social body / Donald E. Hall
  • The volcano and the cathedral: muscular Christianity and the origins of primal manliness / David Rosen
  • On the making and unmaking of monsters: Christian Socialism, muscular Christianity, and the metaphorization of class conflict / Donal E. Hall
  • Christian manliness and national identity: the problematic construction of a racially "pure" nation / C.J.W.-L Wee
  • Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender / Laura Fasick
  • Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the body in Tom Brown's schooldays / Dennis W. Allen
  • Muscular spirituality in George MacDonald's Curdie books / John Pennington
  • "Degenerate effeminacy" and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Susan L. Roberson
  • The confidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Daniel Faulkner
  • The re-subjection of "Lucas Malet": Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular Christianity / Patricia Srebrnik
  • Pater's muscular aestheticism / James Eli Adams
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9780521027076
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Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian Age
Title
Muscular Christianity
Title remainder
embodying the Victorian Age
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edited by Donald E. Hall
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Language
eng
Summary
Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideological links between Muscular Christianity and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens, Hughes, MacDonald, and Pater, and to explore the use of images of hyper-masculinised male bodies to represent social as well as physical ideals. Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society. Throughout, 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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Index
index present
LC call number
PR788.M36
LC item number
M87 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1960-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Hall, Donald E.
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  • English prose literature
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Christianity and literature
  • Men in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • Human body in literature
  • Literature and society
  • Masculinité dans la littérature
  • Christianisme et littérature
  • Hommes dans la littérature
  • Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
  • Corps humain dans la littérature
  • Mannelijkheid
  • Christendom
  • Letterkunde
  • Victoriaanse tijd
  • Männlichkeitskult
  • Christentum
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Literatur
  • Christianity and literature
  • English prose literature
  • Human body in literature
  • Intellectual life
  • Literature and society
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Men in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Englisch
  • Great Britain
Label
Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian Age, edited by Donald E. Hall
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Muscular Christianity: reading and writing the male social body / Donald E. Hall -- The volcano and the cathedral: muscular Christianity and the origins of primal manliness / David Rosen -- On the making and unmaking of monsters: Christian Socialism, muscular Christianity, and the metaphorization of class conflict / Donal E. Hall -- Christian manliness and national identity: the problematic construction of a racially "pure" nation / C.J.W.-L Wee -- Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender / Laura Fasick -- Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the body in Tom Brown's schooldays / Dennis W. Allen -- Muscular spirituality in George MacDonald's Curdie books / John Pennington -- "Degenerate effeminacy" and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Susan L. Roberson -- The confidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Daniel Faulkner -- The re-subjection of "Lucas Malet": Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular Christianity / Patricia Srebrnik -- Pater's muscular aestheticism / James Eli Adams
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiii, 244 pages
Isbn
9780521027076
Lccn
93021276
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29225498
  • (OCoLC)ocm29225498
Label
Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian Age, edited by Donald E. Hall
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Muscular Christianity: reading and writing the male social body / Donald E. Hall -- The volcano and the cathedral: muscular Christianity and the origins of primal manliness / David Rosen -- On the making and unmaking of monsters: Christian Socialism, muscular Christianity, and the metaphorization of class conflict / Donal E. Hall -- Christian manliness and national identity: the problematic construction of a racially "pure" nation / C.J.W.-L Wee -- Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender / Laura Fasick -- Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the body in Tom Brown's schooldays / Dennis W. Allen -- Muscular spirituality in George MacDonald's Curdie books / John Pennington -- "Degenerate effeminacy" and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Susan L. Roberson -- The confidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Daniel Faulkner -- The re-subjection of "Lucas Malet": Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular Christianity / Patricia Srebrnik -- Pater's muscular aestheticism / James Eli Adams
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xiii, 244 pages
Isbn
9780521027076
Lccn
93021276
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29225498
  • (OCoLC)ocm29225498

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