Book ID: CBB993229448

Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy (2020)

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Conlin, Jonathan (Author)
Klaver, Jan Marten Ivo (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 250
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Moore, P. G.
Hale, Piers J.
Franco Rongioletti
Loconsole, Matteo
Lorenzo Marri-Malacrida
Emiliano Panconesi
Concepts
Biographies
Sexuality
Juvenile literature
Science and religion
Public health
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
United Kingdom
Italy
Great Britain
United States
Malawi
England
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