Description: Muscular Christianity:

Other Authors:	Hall, Donald Eugene,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, c1994
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 2
Subjects:	Body, Human, in literature Christianity and literature > History > 19th century > Great Britain English prose literature > History and criticism > 19th century Literature and society > History > 19th century > Great Britain Masculinity in literature Men in literature Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction: Muscular Christianity: reading and writing the malesocial body / Donald E. Hall -- 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: theproblematic construction of a racially 'pure' nation / C. J. W.-L. Wee-- 4. Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender / Laura Fasick-- 5. Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the bodyin Tom Brown's Schooldays / Dennis W. Allen -- 6. Muscular spiritualityin George MacDonald's Curdie books / John Pennington -- 7. 'Degenerateeffeminacy' and the making of a masculine spirituality in the sermonsof Ralph Waldo Emerson / Susan L. Roberson -- 8. The confidence man:empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in The Mysteryof Edwin Drood / David Faulkner.
Physical Description:	xiii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0521453186