The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

This Life of Charles Kingsley is a detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study. Working from the original manuscript letters, the author has placed the events of KingsleyвЂTMs life against a social-historical-religious background, paying much attention to such mid-nineteenth-century issues as geological discoveries, the Oxford Movement, biblical Higher Criticism, Chartism, sanitary reform, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Darwinism, the American Civil War, and the anti-slavery campaigns. Analyses of KingsleyвЂTMs relationships with important contemporaries are allotted ample space, and special emphasis has been given to themes on which previous biographies have remained relatively silent. Kingsley emerges from this study as one of EnglandвЂTMs leading nineteenth-century voices as poet, novelist, social reformer, churchman and historian. CONTENTS......Page 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 20 INTRODUCTION......Page 22 THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH......Page 28 CHAPTER ONE SEMI-SENSUAL DELIGHTS OF EAR AND EYE (1819–1838)......Page 30 CHAPTER TWO NOBLE COURTS AND CLOISTERS AND BOLD, BEDIZENED WOMEN (1838–1842)......Page 56 CHAPTER THREE MAKING OF THE DEBAUCHEE A PREACHER OFPURITY AND HOLINESS (1842–1843)......Page 77 CHAPTER FOUR WHO CAN TELL WHITHER THE WIND MAY WAFT ITS SEEDS WHEN THE CROP IS RIPE? (1844–1845)......Page 106 CHAPTER FIVE WHAT RIGHT HAVE I TO ARROGATE CHRIST’S BRIDE-BED? (1846–1847)......Page 128 CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM......Page 150 CHAPTER SIX THE FLAG AND THE HORNS (1848)......Page 152 CHAPTER SEVEN ADDLE BRAIN, HOGGISH LIFE, AND THE WILD LONGING TO DO SOMETHING (1849)......Page 190 CHAPTER EIGHT RED-HOT SHOT AGAINST THE DEVIL’S DUNG-HEAP (1850)......Page 222 CHAPTER NINE WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS? ( JANUARY–JUNE 1851)......Page 254 CHAPTER TEN HE BADE HER CHANGE HER NUN’S DRESS ( JULY–DECEMBER 1851)......Page 292 CHAPTER ELEVEN THE ENERGETIC HEALTHY ANIMAL MAN (1852)......Page 318 CHAPTER TWELVE WHICH THE YOUNG AND INNOCENT WILL DO WELL TO LEAVE ALTOGETHER UNREAD (1853)......Page 344 CHAPTER THIRTEEN A LITTLE OF THE WOLF-VEIN (1854)......Page 371 CHAPTER FOURTEEN A MOST RUTHLESS BLOODTHIRSTY BOOK ( JANUARY–JUNE 1855)......Page 396 SANITARY REFORM......Page 422 CHAPTER FIFTEEN ALONE AMONG MANKIND, ON A CLIFF WHICH IS CRUSHING BENEATH ONE ( JULY 1855–DECEMBER 1856)......Page 424 CHAPTER SIXTEEN A LITERARY MAN, A MODERN HERCULES, AND A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN (1857)......Page 449 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER (1858)......Page 471 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AN EXCELLENT DARWINIAN (1859–1860)......Page 487 ENEMIES......Page 514 CHAPTER NINETEEN CAMBRIDGE IN MAGNIFICENT REPOSE (1861–1862)......Page 516 CHAPTER TWENTY TRUTH, FOR ITS OWN SAKE (1863–1864)......Page 549 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE IN MUCH MIRE (1865–1866)......Page 578 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO GOD’S FACTS, INSTEAD OF MEN’S LIES (1866–1867)......Page 592 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE UGLY AFTER-CROP OF SUPERSTITION (1868–1869)......Page 608 OLD AND NEW WORLDS......Page 626 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE DREAM OF FORTY YEARS (1870–1872)......Page 628 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE GREAT YOUNG FREE NEW WORLD (1873–1874)......Page 647 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX NO MORE FIGHTING (1874–1875)......Page 671 CONCLUSION......Page 682 BIBLIOGRAPH......Page 686 INDEX......Page 692 ISBN-13: 9789004151284 CONTENTS 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 16 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 20 INTRODUCTION 22 THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH 28 CHAPTER ONE SEMI-SENSUAL DELIGHTS OF EAR AND EYE (1819–1838) 30 CHAPTER TWO NOBLE COURTS AND CLOISTERS AND BOLD, BEDIZENED WOMEN (1838–1842) 56 CHAPTER THREE MAKING OF THE DEBAUCHEE A PREACHER OFPURITY AND HOLINESS (1842–1843) 77 CHAPTER FOUR WHO CAN TELL WHITHER THE WIND MAY WAFT ITS SEEDS WHEN THE CROP IS RIPE? (1844–1845) 106 CHAPTER FIVE WHAT RIGHT HAVE I TO ARROGATE CHRIST’S BRIDE-BED? (1846–1847) 128 CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM 150 CHAPTER SIX THE FLAG AND THE HORNS (1848) 152 CHAPTER SEVEN ADDLE BRAIN, HOGGISH LIFE, AND THE WILD LONGING TO DO SOMETHING (1849) 190 CHAPTER EIGHT RED-HOT SHOT AGAINST THE DEVIL’S DUNG-HEAP (1850) 222 CHAPTER NINE WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS? ( JANUARY–JUNE 1851) 254 CHAPTER TEN HE BADE HER CHANGE HER NUN’S DRESS ( JULY–DECEMBER 1851) 292 CHAPTER ELEVEN THE ENERGETIC HEALTHY ANIMAL MAN (1852) 318 CHAPTER TWELVE WHICH THE YOUNG AND INNOCENT WILL DO WELL TO LEAVE ALTOGETHER UNREAD (1853) 344 CHAPTER THIRTEEN A LITTLE OF THE WOLF-VEIN (1854) 371 CHAPTER FOURTEEN A MOST RUTHLESS BLOODTHIRSTY BOOK ( JANUARY–JUNE 1855) 396 SANITARY REFORM 422 CHAPTER FIFTEEN ALONE AMONG MANKIND, ON A CLIFF WHICH IS CRUSHING BENEATH ONE ( JULY 1855–DECEMBER 1856) 424 CHAPTER SIXTEEN A LITERARY MAN, A MODERN HERCULES, AND A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN (1857) 449 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER (1858) 471 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AN EXCELLENT DARWINIAN (1859–1860) 487 ENEMIES 514 CHAPTER NINETEEN CAMBRIDGE IN MAGNIFICENT REPOSE (1861–1862) 516 CHAPTER TWENTY TRUTH, FOR ITS OWN SAKE (1863–1864) 549 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE IN MUCH MIRE (1865–1866) 578 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO GOD’S FACTS, INSTEAD OF MEN’S LIES (1866–1867) 592 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE UGLY AFTER-CROP OF SUPERSTITION (1868–1869) 608 OLD AND NEW WORLDS 626 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE DREAM OF FORTY YEARS (1870–1872) 628 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE GREAT YOUNG FREE NEW WORLD (1873–1874) 647 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX NO MORE FIGHTING (1874–1875) 671 CONCLUSION 682 BIBLIOGRAPH 686 INDEX 692 Brill,Academic,Publishers Brill Academic Publishers 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. By J.m.i. Klaver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [665]-670) And Index.