Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-333-80253-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations; militarism and hymnody; male homosexuality and homoeroticism. The book is not afraid to explore controversial areas, nor to go beyond the generally acknowledged 'canon' of prescribers of gender identity: it includes, for example, leading nonconformist figures like William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and early gay writers like John Addington Symonds.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradstock, Andrew

Morgan, Sue

Gill, S.

Hogan, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Preface; J.Tosh Introduction; A.Bradstock, S.Gill, A.Hogan & S.Morgan Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life; J.R.Watson The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism; L.M.Miller Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary; C.M.Engelhardt 'Reading Men More Truly': Charlotte Brontë's Villette; A.Hogan Angry Young Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Tonge; C.Wells-Cole Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery; F.S.Roden Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century; P.Healy 'A Double-minded Man is Unstable in all his ways': Religion, Doubt, Male Homosexuality and John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough; H.J.Booth The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall; F.O'Gorman George Eliot, Masculinity, and the (Ir)Religion of Nationalism; M.McCaw Ecce Homo: The Depiction of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus; S.Gill 'Writing the Male Body': Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard, 1884-1894; S.Morgan William Booth: Saint or Charlatan?: L.Lauer 'A Man of God is a Manly Man': Spurgeon, Luther and 'Holy Boldness'; A.Bradstock Index

Über Autor(innen)

HOWARD J. BOOTH Lecturer, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London
CAROL MARIE ENGELHARDT Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
PHILIP HEALY Director of Academic and External Affairs, Westminster College, Oxford
LAURA LAUER Author
NEIL MCCAW Lecturer in English Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester
LORI M. MILLER Researcher
FRANCIS O'GORMAN Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Leeds
FREDERICK S. RODEN Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut
J. R. WATSON Research Professor of English, University of Durham
CATHERINE WELLS-COLE Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey, Roehampton