Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9780367679323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str.

Conlin, Jonathan

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Novelist, poet, priest and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) 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.

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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