{"product_id":"charles-kingsley-9780367679323","title":"Charles Kingsley","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (181975) 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWestward Ho! \u003c\/i\u003ewere best-sellers which became classics of children's literature. Kingsley has come to epitomize the Victorian age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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 co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Charles Kingsley: \"The Most Typical Victorian of Them All\" 1. \"Love Me! Baby! Love God!\": Courtship, Marriage, and the Emergence of a Kingsleyan Ascetics, 1839–1845 2. A \"Yeasty State of Mind\": Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Self-Culture 3. \"To Amuse Merely as a Novel\": \u003ci\u003eAlton Locke\u003c\/i\u003e (1850) and Literary Pleasure 4. Effeminate: Kingsley and the History of an Epithet 5. How Odd is Kingsley’s \u003ci\u003eHypatia\u003c\/i\u003e? 6. The Fly in the Amber: The Controversy with Newman 7. Kingsley’s Muscular Poetics 8. Kingsley’s Old Testament Heroes 9. Charles Kingsley and the Evolution of Man and Morals in \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Evolutionary and Anglican Afterlives: Death as a Sacrament in Kingsley’s \u003ci\u003eWater Babies \u003c\/i\u003e11. Kingsley on Race and Empire 12. Kingsley and the Irish 13. Histories and Historians Afterword: Charles Kingsley as Polymath\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018014622039,"sku":"9780367679323","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367679323.jpg?v=1750775365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/charles-kingsley-9780367679323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}