Muscular Christianity
Subtitle: Embodying the Victorian Age (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521027076
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literature and society; 19th century; Christianity and literature; English prose literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; 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.