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Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0521453186, 9780521453189
LCC
PR788.M36 M87 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7167123 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages
260\259
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in cultural and gender theory to reveal close links between the ideology of the movement and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens and Pater. Throughout this book, which also contributes to the critical debate on the body as a site for socio-political conflict, Muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class, and national identity in the Victorian age.

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