Muscular Christianity
Subtitle: Embodying the Victorian Age (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521453189
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Men In Literature; History; 19th Century English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English prose literature--19th century--Histo; English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Christianity and literature; 19th century; English prose literature; Great Britain; Masculinity in literature
First sentence: The movement labeled by its derogators as "muscular Christianity" arose, paradoxically perhaps, among notably liberal men, the Christian Socialists, who had fought for the Chartists, for improvements in living conditions, and even for limited rights for women.