The apostle of the flesh : a critical life of Charles Kingsley / by J.M.I. Klaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klaver, J. M. I.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 140.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.

Kingsley, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (706 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Life of Charles Kingsley is a detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study. Working from the original manuscript letters, the author has placed the events of Kingsley’s life against a social-historical-religious background, paying much attention to such mid-nineteenth-century issues as geological discoveries, the Oxford Movement, biblical Higher Criticism, Chartism, sanitary reform, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Darwinism, the American Civil War, and the anti-slavery campaigns. Analyses of Kingsley’s relationships with important contemporaries are allotted ample space, and special emphasis has been given to themes on which previous biographies have remained relatively silent. Kingsley emerges from this study as one of England’s leading nineteenth-century voices as poet, novelist, social reformer, churchman and historian.

Contents:

The devil and the flesh

Christian socialism

Muscular Christianity

Sanitary reform

Enemies

Old and New worlds.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-670) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39919-1

9786611399191

90-474-0958-2

OCLC:

568171821

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409588 DOI