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Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture
Bradstock, Andrew, Morgan, Sue
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Description for Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture
Hardcover. In its specially commissioned 14 chapters, this book discusses a range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the 19th century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; HRC; JFC; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 495.
In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations; militarism and hymnody; male homosexuality and homoeroticism. The book is not afraid to explore controversial areas, nor to go beyond the generally acknowledged 'canon' of prescribers of gender identity: it includes, for example, leading nonconformist figures like William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and early gay writers like John Addington Symonds. ... Read more
In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations; militarism and hymnody; male homosexuality and homoeroticism. The book is not afraid to explore controversial areas, nor to go beyond the generally acknowledged 'canon' of prescribers of gender identity: it includes, for example, leading nonconformist figures like William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and early gay writers like John Addington Symonds. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333802533
SKU
V9780333802533
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About Bradstock, Andrew, Morgan, Sue
HOWARD J. BOOTH Lecturer, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London CAROL MARIE ENGELHARDT Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio PHILIP HEALY Director of Academic and External Affairs, Westminster College, Oxford LAURA LAUER Author NEIL MCCAW Lecturer in English Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester LORI M. MILLER Researcher FRANCIS O'GORMAN Lecturer in ... Read more
Reviews for Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture
'The range of themes and materials explored is impressive and there are interesting, sometimes arresting insights in almost every essay...The book confirms the extent to which Victorian and contemporary problems of culture, spirituality and gender identity in all their variousness can illuminate each other.' - Norman Vance, University of Sussex