Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

HOWARD J. BOOTH Lecturer, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of LondonCAROL MARIE ENGELHARDT Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University, Dayton, OhioPHILIP HEALY Director of Academic and External Affairs, Westminster College, OxfordLAURA LAUER AuthorNEIL MCCAW Lecturer in English Studies, King Alfred's College, WinchesterLORI M. MILLER ResearcherFRANCIS O'GORMAN Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of LeedsFREDERICK S. RODEN Assistant Professor of English, University of ConnecticutJ. R. WATSON Research Professor of English, University of DurhamCATHERINE WELLS-COLE Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey, Roehampton

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Preface; J.Tosh Introduction; A.Bradstock, S.Gill, A.Hogan & S.Morgan Soldiers and Saints: the Fighting Man and the Christian Life; J.R.Watson The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism; L.M.Miller Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary; C.M.Engelhardt 'Reading Men More Truly': Charlotte Brontë's Villette; A.Hogan Angry Young Men: Anger and Masculinity in the Novels of Charlotte M. Tonge; C.Wells-Cole Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery; F.S.Roden Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century; P.Healy 'A Double-minded Man is Unstable in all his ways': Religion, Doubt, Male Homosexuality and John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough; H.J.Booth The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall; F.O'Gorman George Eliot, Masculinity, and the (Ir)Religion of Nationalism; M.McCaw Ecce Homo: The Depiction of Christ as the Model of Masculinity in Victorian Art and Lives of Jesus; S.Gill 'Writing the Male Body': Sexual Purity and Masculinity in The Vanguard , 1884-1894; S.Morgan William Booth: Saint or Charlatan?: L.Lauer 'A Man of God is a Manly Man': Spurgeon, Luther and 'Holy Boldness'; A.Bradstock Index

'The range of themes and materials explored is impressive and there are interesting, sometimes arresting insights in almost every essay...The book confirms the extent to which Victorian and contemporary problems of culture, spirituality and gender identity in all their variousness can illuminate each other.' - Norman Vance, University of Sussex