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Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideological links between muscular Christianity and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens, Hughes, MacDonald and Pater, and to explore the use of images of hyper-masculinized male bodies to represent social as well as physical ideals. Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society. Throughout, muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class and national identity in the Victorian age.

Fiction --- Christian church history --- English literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Christianity and literature --- -English prose literature --- -Men in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Literature and society --- -Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Human figure in literature --- History --- -History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- -Body, Human, in literature --- -History --- -Fiction --- -Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- English prose literature --- Human body in literature --- Men in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- History and criticism.

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An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.

English literature --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, English --- Politics and literature --- Mind and body in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Romanticism --- Pain in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects

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This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.

Body [Human ] in literature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Dieet in de literatuur --- Diet in literature --- Human body in literature --- Human-animal relationships in literature --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de literatuur --- Man-animal relationship in literature --- Meatless meals in literature --- Mens-dier relaties in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in de literatuur --- Nature dans la littérature --- Nature in literature --- Natuur in de literatuur --- Relations homme-animal dans la litérature --- Romanticism --- Romantiek --- Romantisme --- Régime alimentaire dans la litérature --- Vegetarianism in literature --- Vegetarisme in de literatuur --- Végétarisme dans la litérature --- English literature --- Thematology --- History of civilization --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe --- anno 1700-1799 --- Knowledge --- Political and social views --- Human-animal relationships --- Public opinion --- History --- 18th century --- Nature conservation --- Vegetarianism --- Diet --- Diet in literature. --- Man-animal relationships - Public opinion - History - 18th century. --- Nature conservation - Public opinion - History - 18th century. --- Vegetarianism - Public opinion - History - 18th century. --- Diet - Public opinion - History - 18th century. --- Man-animal relationships in literature. --- Vegetarianism in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Romanticism. --- Nature in poetry --- Health --- Food --- Food habits --- Nutrition --- Meatless meals --- Vegetarian diet --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Conservation --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, P. B. --- Sheli, Persi Bish, --- Hsüeh-lai, --- Hermit of Marlow, --- Marlow, --- Victor, --- Shelli, Persi-Bishi, --- Šéli, Pérsi Ba, --- Shilī, --- Selley, Persy Byss, --- Shelli, P., --- Шелли, Перси Биши, --- שלי, פרסי ביש --- שלי, פרסי ביש, --- שעלי, פוירסי --- شلي --- Śeli, Pārsi Bīśa, --- Political and social views. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Shelley (Percy Bysshe), 1792-1822 --- Corps humain --- Relations homme-animal --- Végétarisme --- Alimentation --- Littérature et société --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Dans la littérature --- Opinion publique --- Grande-Bretagne --- 19e siècle