Charles Kingsley : Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy Paperback / softback
Edited by Jonathan (University of Southampton, UK) Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo (University of Urbino, Italy) Klaver
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series
Paperback / softback
Description
Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, physical struggle.
Kingsley’s The Water-Babies and Westward Ho! were best-sellers which became classics of children’s literature.
Kingsley has come to epitomize the Victorian age. On closer inspection, Kingsley is harder to categorize: a socialist who was also an imperialist, a Chartist revolutionary who was Queen Victoria’s favourite novelist, a natural theologian who popularized Darwin, a priest who celebrated sex as sacrament.
Kingsley only appears straightforward if you consider him one piece at a time.
The debates he shaped remain with us today: faith and sexuality, economics and exploitation, race and identity.
The aim of this book is to present the whole man: to consider the public crusades for public health alongside the most private fantasies of sexual intercourse; to consider the ardent imperialist alongside the Darwinist.
It will be of interest to all students of Victorian studies, as well as of British/Imperial history, church history, and especially the history of science.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2022
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- ISBN:9780367679323
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367679323