Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, Sue Morgan

   Pages 1-9

3. Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life

   • J. R. Watson

   Pages 10-26

4. The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism

   • Lori M. Miller

   Pages 27-43

5. Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary

   • Carol Marie Engelhardt

   Pages 44-57

6. ‘Reading Men More Truly’: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

   • Anne Hogan

   Pages 58-70

7. Angry Yonge Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge

   • Catherine Wells-Cole

   Pages 71-84

8. Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery

   • Frederick S. Roden

   Pages 85-99

9. Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century

   • Philip Healy

   Pages 100-115

10. Male Sexuality, Religion and the Problem of Action: John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough

    • Howard J. Booth

    Pages 116-133

11. ‘The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club’: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall

    • Francis O’Gorman

    Pages 134-148

12. ‘Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails’? George Eliot, Masculinity and the (Ir)religion of Nationalism

    • Neil McCaw

    Pages 149-163

13. Ecce Homo: Representations of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus

    • Sean Gill

    Pages 164-178

14. ‘Writing the Male Body’: Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard, 1884–94

    • Sue Morgan

    Pages 179-193

15. Soul-saving Partnerships and Pacifist Soldiers: the Ideal of Masculinity in the Salvation Army

    • Laura Lauer

    Pages 194-208

16. ‘A Man of God is a Manly Man’: Spurgeon, Luther and ‘Holy Boldness’

    • Andrew Bradstock

    Pages 209-225

17. Back Matter

    Pages 226-232

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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.

• Anglican Church
• Cultural Studies
• culture
• gender
• novel
• spirituality

'The range of themes and materials explored is impressive and there are interesting, sometimes arresting insights in almost every essay...The book confirms the extent to which Victorian and contemporary problems of culture, spirituality and gender identity in all their variousness can illuminate each other.' - Norman Vance, University of Sussex

• King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK

  Andrew Bradstock

• Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK

  Sean Gill

• School of Culture and Language, University of Southampton New College, UK

  Anne Hogan

• University College Chichester, UK

  Sue Morgan

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

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