E. Hall (ed.)

Muscular Christianity

Herausgeber: Donald E., Hall; Hall, Donald E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An extremist mid-Victorian religious philosophy influencing gender, class, and national identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780521453189
• ISBN-10: 0521453186
• Artikelnr.: 21541197

Inhaltsangabe

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.