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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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Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic

Litterature. --- Culture populaire. --- Bisexualite.