Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture

ANDREW BRADSTOCK is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King Alfred's College, Winchester. - SEAN GILL is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. His publications include Women and the Church of England from the Eighteenth Century to the Present and The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement: Campaigning for Justice, Truth and Love. - ANNE HOGAN is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton New College. - SUE MORGAN is Senior Lecturer in Gender History and Head of the School of History at University College, Chichester. Her publications include A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the Politics of Gender in the Late Victorian Culture.

• 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