Novelist, poet, priest and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819â 1875) epitomises the bustling Victorian man of letters. As this inter-disciplinary collection of chapters demonstrates, however, he was far from a typical Victorian, a polymath who tested the limits of faith, science and sexuality.
Novelist, poet, priest and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819â 1875) epitomises the bustling Victorian man of letters. As this inter-disciplinary collection of chapters demonstrates, however, he was far from a typical Victorian, a polymath who tested the limits of faith, science and sexuality.
Jonathan Conlin is senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Southampton. Jan Marten Ivo Klaver is professor of English Literature and culture at the University of Urbino.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Charles Kingsley: "The Most Typical Victorian of Them All" 1. "Love Me! Baby! Love God!": Courtship, Marriage, and the Emergence of a Kingsleyan Ascetics, 1839-1845 2. A "Yeasty State of Mind": Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Self-Culture 3. "To Amuse Merely as a Novel": Alton Locke (1850) and Literary Pleasure 4. Effeminate: Kingsley and the History of an Epithet 5. How Odd is Kingsley's Hypatia? 6. The Fly in the Amber: The Controversy with Newman 7. Kingsley's Muscular Poetics 8. Kingsley's Old Testament Heroes 9. Charles Kingsley and the Evolution of Man and Morals in The Water-Babies 10. Evolutionary and Anglican Afterlives: Death as a Sacrament in Kingsley's Water Babies 11. Kingsley on Race and Empire 12. Kingsley and the Irish 13. Histories and Historians Afterword: Charles Kingsley as Polymath
Introduction: Charles Kingsley: "The Most Typical Victorian of Them All" 1. "Love Me! Baby! Love God!": Courtship, Marriage, and the Emergence of a Kingsleyan Ascetics, 1839-1845 2. A "Yeasty State of Mind": Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Self-Culture 3. "To Amuse Merely as a Novel": Alton Locke (1850) and Literary Pleasure 4. Effeminate: Kingsley and the History of an Epithet 5. How Odd is Kingsley's Hypatia? 6. The Fly in the Amber: The Controversy with Newman 7. Kingsley's Muscular Poetics 8. Kingsley's Old Testament Heroes 9. Charles Kingsley and the Evolution of Man and Morals in The Water-Babies 10. Evolutionary and Anglican Afterlives: Death as a Sacrament in Kingsley's Water Babies 11. Kingsley on Race and Empire 12. Kingsley and the Irish 13. Histories and Historians Afterword: Charles Kingsley as Polymath
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