Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary and
social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on
recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal
ideological links between muscular Christianity and the work of
novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens,
Hughes, MacDonald and Pater, and to explore the use of images of
hyper-masculinized male bodies to represent social as well as
physical ideals. Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies
of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural
conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian
texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of
socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society.
Throughout, muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of
issues of gender, class and national identity in the Victorian age.
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