This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century life
by examining the nature and context of 'Christian manliness' or
'muscular Christianity', an ideal of conduct that was widely
popular with Victorian preachers and writers. It pays particular
attention to Charles Kingsley (author of The Water-Babies) and
Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays). Dr Vance traces
the origins of Christian manliness in the traditions of English
sporting prowess, in notions of chivalry and gentlemanliness, and
in the preaching of vigourous virtue from St Paul to Victorian
evangelists. He also considers the social and religious thought of
Coleridge, Carlyle, F. D. Maurice and Thomas Arnold, showing how
Kingsley and Hughes developed their own ideals of Christian
manliness against this background, and in keen response to the
troubles of their time: social unrest, religious rancour, war and
disease. A final chapter traces the fragmentation and debasement of
the ideal in the twentieth century.
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