Muscular Christianity : embodying the Victorian age

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List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: muscular Christianity: reading and writing the male social body Donald E. Hall Part I. Foundations of Muscular Christianity: 1. The volcano and the cathedral: muscular Christianity and the origins of primal manliness David Rosen 2. On the making and unmaking of monsters: Christian socialism, muscular Christianity, and the metaphorization of class conflict Donald E. Hall 3. Christian manliness and national identity: the problematic construction of a racially 'pure' nation C. J. W.-L. Wee Part II: Varieties of Muscular Christianity: 4. Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender Laura Fasick 5. Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the body in Tom Brown's Schooldays Dennis W. Allen 6. Muscular spirituality in George MacDonald's Curdie Books John Pennington 7. 'Degenerate effeminacy' and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan L. Roberson Part III. Responses to Muscular Christianity: 8. The confidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood David Faulkner 9. The re-subjection of 'Lucas Malet': Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular Christianity Patricia Srebrnik 10. Pater's muscular aestheticism James Eli Adams Index.

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