Masculinity and spirituality in Victorian culture

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life......Page 23
2 The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism......Page 40
3 Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary......Page 57
4 ‘Reading Men More Truly’: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette......Page 71
5 Angry Yonge Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge......Page 84
6 Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery......Page 98
7 Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century......Page 113
8 Male Sexuality, Religion and the Problem of Action: John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough......Page 129
9 ‘The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club’: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall......Page 147
10 ‘Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails’? George Eliot, Masculinity and the (Ir)religion of Nationalism......Page 162
11 Ecce Homo: Representations of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus......Page 177
12 ‘Writing the Male Body’: Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard, 1884–94......Page 192
13 Soul-saving Partnerships and Pacifist Soldiers: the Ideal of Masculinity in the Salvation Army......Page 207
14 ‘A Man of God is a Manly Man’: Spurgeon, Luther and ‘Holy Boldness’......Page 222
Index......Page 239