The Apostle of the Flesh : A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (706 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.140 .
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- THE APOSTLE OF THE FLESHA CRITICAL LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH -- CHAPTER ONE SEMI-SENSUAL DELIGHTS OF EAR AND EYE (1819-1838) -- CHAPTER TWO NOBLE COURTS AND CLOISTERS AND BOLD, BEDIZENED WOMEN (1838-1842) -- CHAPTER THREE MAKING OF THE DEBAUCHEE A PREACHER OF PURITY AND HOLINESS (1842-1843) -- CHAPTER FOUR WHO CAN TELL WHITHER THE WIND MAY WAFT ITS SEEDS WHEN THE CROP IS RIPE? (1844-1845) -- CHAPTER FIVE WHAT RIGHT HAVE I TO ARROGATE CHRIST'S BRIDE-BED? (1846-1847) -- CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM -- CHAPTER SIX THE FLAG AND THE HORNS (1848) -- CHAPTER SEVEN ADDLE BRAIN, HOGGISH LIFE, AND THE WILD LONGING TO DO SOMETHING (1849) -- CHAPTER EIGHT RED-HOT SHOT AGAINST THE DEVIL'S DUNG-HEAP (1850) -- CHAPTER NINE WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS? ( JANUARY-JUNE 1851) -- CHAPTER TEN HE BADE HER CHANGE HER NUN'S DRESS ( JULY-DECEMBER 1851) -- MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN THE ENERGETIC HEALTHY ANIMAL MAN (1852) -- CHAPTER TWELVE WHICH THE YOUNG AND INNOCENT WILL DO WELL TO LEAVE ALTOGETHER UNREAD (1853) -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN A LITTLE OF THE WOLF-VEIN (1854) -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN A MOST RUTHLESS BLOODTHIRSTY BOOK ( JANUARY-JUNE 1855) -- SANITARY REFORM -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN ALONE AMONG MANKIND, ON A CLIFF WHICH IS CRUSHING BENEATH ONE ( JULY 1855-DECEMBER 1856) -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN A LITERARY MAN, A MODERN HERCULES, AND A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN (1857) -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER (1858) -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AN EXCELLENT DARWINIAN (1859-1860) -- ENEMIES -- CHAPTER NINETEEN CAMBRIDGE IN MAGNIFICENT REPOSE (1861-1862) -- CHAPTER TWENTY TRUTH, FOR ITS OWN SAKE (1863-1864) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE IN MUCH MIRE (1865-1866) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO GOD'S FACTS, INSTEAD OF MEN'S LIES (1866-1867). CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE UGLY AFTER-CROP OF SUPERSTITION (1868-1869) -- OLD AND NEW WORLDS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE DREAM OF FORTY YEARS (1870-1872) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE GREAT YOUNG FREE NEW WORLD (1873-1874) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX NO MORE FIGHTING (1874-1875) -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
From this detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study, Charles Kingsley emerges as one of England's leading nineteenth-century voices as poet, novelist, social reformer, churchman and historian.