Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

by Edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan and Sue Morgan

• ISBN13: 9780312235611
• ISBN10: 0312235615
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-01-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture explores the wide range of issues centered round the theme of male spirituality in the 19th century drawing on the disciplines history, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism. The study focuses on a wide range of issues including ideological and iconographical representations across the major Christian denominations, militarianism and hymnody and male sexuality and homoeroticism. At this time controversial, this study looks beyond the "canon" of acknowledged prescribers of gender identity, focusing on non-conformist figures such as William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and also the work of 19th century homosexual writers such as John Addington Symonds. The study also explores relational aspects of gender, examining the work of women writers such as Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Charlotte Bronteuml; and their writing on men and masculinity, and at male responses to the figure of the Virgin Mary.

Author Biography

Andrew Bradstock is Senior Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies, Alfred's College.

Sean Gill is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol.

Anne Hogan is Lecturer in English, The University of Southampton New College.

Sue Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Gender History, University College, Chichester.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(9)
Andrew Bradstock
Sean Gill
Anne Hogan
Sue Morgan
Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life	10	(17)
J. R. Watson
The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism	27	(17)
Lori M. Miller
Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary	44	(14)
Carol Marie Engelhardt
`Reading Men More Truly': Charlotte Bronte's Villette	58	(13)
Anne Hogan
Angry Yonge Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge	71	(14)
Catherine Wells-Cole
Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery	85	(15)
Frederick S. Roden
Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century	100	(16)
Philip Healy
Male Sexuality, Religion and the Problem of Action: John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough	116	(18)
Howard J. Booth
`The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club': Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall	134	(15)
Francis O'Gorman
`Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs' Tails'? George Eliot, Masculinity and the (Ir)religion of Nationalism	149	(15)
Neil McCaw
Ecce Homo: Representations of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus	164	(15)
Sean Gill
`Writing the Male Body': Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard, 1884-94	179	(15)
Sue Morgan
Soul-saving Partnerships and Pacifist Soldiers: the Ideal of Masculinity in the Salvation Army	194	(15)
Laura Lauer
`A Man of God is a Manly Man': Spurgeon, Luther and `Holy Boldness'	209	(17)
Andrew Bradstock
Index	226