Muscular Christianity : Embodying the Victorian Age Hardback
Edited by Donald E. Hall
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
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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-masculinized 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/09/1994
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- ISBN:9780521453189
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/09/1994
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- ISBN:9780521453189
