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The Apostle of the Flesh
A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 140
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This Life of Charles Kingsley is a detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study. Working from the original manuscript letters, the author has placed the events of Kingsleyâs life against a social-historical-religious background, paying much attention to such mid-nineteenth-century issues as geological discoveries, the Oxford Movement, biblical Higher Criticism, Chartism, sanitary reform, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Darwinism, the American Civil War, and the anti-slavery campaigns. Analyses of Kingsleyâs relationships with important contemporaries are allotted ample space, and special emphasis has been given to themes on which previous biographies have remained relatively silent. Kingsley emerges from this study as one of Englandâs leading nineteenth-century voices as poet, novelist, social reformer, churchman and historian.
Jan Marten Ivo Klaver, Ph.D. (1997) University of Amsterdam, has a deep interest in the relationship between nineteenth-century science, religion and literature. His Geology and Religious Sentiment was published by Brill in 1997, and his work on George Eliot has been included in the New Riverside Edition of The Mill on the Floss (2004).
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH
1. Semi-Sensual Delights of Ear and Eye (1819â1838)
2. Noble Courts and Cloisters and Bold, Bedizened Women (1838â1842)
3. Making of the Debauchee a Preacher of Purity and Holiness (1842â1843)
4. Who Can Tell Whither the Wind May Waft Its Seeds When the Crop Is Ripe? (1844â1845)
5. What Right Have I to Arrogate Christâs Bride-Bed? (1846â1847)
CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
6. The Flag and the Horns (1848)
7. Addle Brain, Hoggish Life, and the Wild Longing to Do Something (1849)
8. Red-hot Shot Against the Devilâs Dung-heap (1850)
9. What Are We To Do With the Christian Socialists? (JanuaryâJune 1851)
10. He Bade Her Change Her Nunâs Dress (JulyâDecember 1851)
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY
11. The Energetic Healthy Animal Man (1852)
12. Which the Young and Innocent Will Do Well to Leave Altogether Unread (1853)
13. A Little of the Wolf-vein (1854)
14. A Most Ruthless Bloodthirsty Book ( JanuaryâJune 1855)
SANITARY REFORM
15. Alone among Mankind, on a Cliff which is Crushing beneath One ( July 1855âDecember 1856)
16. A Literary Man, a Modern Hercules, and a Country Clergyman (1857)
17. A Minute Philosopher (1858)
18. An Excellent Darwinian (1859â1860)
ENEMIES
19. Cambridge In Magnificent Repose (1861â1862)
20. Truth, For Its Own Sake (1863â1864)
21. In Much Mire (1865â1866)
22. Godâs Facts, Instead of Menâs Lies (1866â1867)
23. The Ugly After-Crop of Superstition (1868â1869)
OLD AND NEW WORLDS
24. The Dream of Forty Years (1870â1872)
25. The Great Young Free New World (1873â1874)
26. No More Fighting (1874â1875)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH
1. Semi-Sensual Delights of Ear and Eye (1819â1838)
2. Noble Courts and Cloisters and Bold, Bedizened Women (1838â1842)
3. Making of the Debauchee a Preacher of Purity and Holiness (1842â1843)
4. Who Can Tell Whither the Wind May Waft Its Seeds When the Crop Is Ripe? (1844â1845)
5. What Right Have I to Arrogate Christâs Bride-Bed? (1846â1847)
CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
6. The Flag and the Horns (1848)
7. Addle Brain, Hoggish Life, and the Wild Longing to Do Something (1849)
8. Red-hot Shot Against the Devilâs Dung-heap (1850)
9. What Are We To Do With the Christian Socialists? (JanuaryâJune 1851)
10. He Bade Her Change Her Nunâs Dress (JulyâDecember 1851)
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY
11. The Energetic Healthy Animal Man (1852)
12. Which the Young and Innocent Will Do Well to Leave Altogether Unread (1853)
13. A Little of the Wolf-vein (1854)
14. A Most Ruthless Bloodthirsty Book ( JanuaryâJune 1855)
SANITARY REFORM
15. Alone among Mankind, on a Cliff which is Crushing beneath One ( July 1855âDecember 1856)
16. A Literary Man, a Modern Hercules, and a Country Clergyman (1857)
17. A Minute Philosopher (1858)
18. An Excellent Darwinian (1859â1860)
ENEMIES
19. Cambridge In Magnificent Repose (1861â1862)
20. Truth, For Its Own Sake (1863â1864)
21. In Much Mire (1865â1866)
22. Godâs Facts, Instead of Menâs Lies (1866â1867)
23. The Ugly After-Crop of Superstition (1868â1869)
OLD AND NEW WORLDS
24. The Dream of Forty Years (1870â1872)
25. The Great Young Free New World (1873â1874)
26. No More Fighting (1874â1875)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the Victorian period, nineteenth-century intellectual biography, and English literature, as well as historians of the Anglican Church.