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Charles Kingsley - Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy (Paperback)
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Charles Kingsley - Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles
Kingsley (1819-75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith
and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with
John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to
schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, physical struggle.
Kingsley's The Water-Babies and Westward Ho! were best-sellers
which became classics of children's literature. Kingsley has come
to epitomize the Victorian age. On closer inspection, Kingsley is
harder to categorize: a socialist who was also an imperialist, a
Chartist revolutionary who was Queen Victoria's favourite novelist,
a natural theologian who popularized Darwin, a priest who
celebrated sex as sacrament. Kingsley only appears straightforward
if you consider him one piece at a time. The debates he shaped
remain with us today: faith and sexuality, economics and
exploitation, race and identity. The aim of this book is to present
the whole man: to consider the public crusades for public health
alongside the most private fantasies of sexual intercourse; to
consider the ardent imperialist alongside the Darwinist. It will be
of interest to all students of Victorian studies, as well as of
British/Imperial history, church history, and especially the
history of science.
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