Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

✍ Scribed by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, Sue Morgan (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life....Pages 10-26
The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism....Pages 27-43
Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary....Pages 44-57
‘Reading Men More Truly’: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette....Pages 58-70
Angry Yonge Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge....Pages 71-84
Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery....Pages 85-99
Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century....Pages 100-115
Male Sexuality, Religion and the Problem of Action: John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough....Pages 116-133
‘The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club’: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall....Pages 134-148
‘Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails’? George Eliot, Masculinity and the (Ir)religion of Nationalism....Pages 149-163
Ecce Homo: Representations of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus....Pages 164-178
‘Writing the Male Body’: Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard, 1884–94....Pages 179-193
Soul-saving Partnerships and Pacifist Soldiers: the Ideal of Masculinity in the Salvation Army....Pages 194-208
‘A Man of God is a Manly Man’: Spurgeon, Luther and ‘Holy Boldness’....Pages 209-225
Back Matter....Pages 226-232

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Modern History; Gender Studies; Nineteenth-Century Literature; History of Britain and Ireland