{"product_id":"9780367679323-charles-kingsley","title":"Charles Kingsley","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaith, Flesh, and Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovelist, poet, priest and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) epitomises the bustling Victorian man of letters. As this inter-disciplinary collection of chapters demonstrates, however, he was far from a typical Victorian, a polymath who tested the limits of faith, science and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, physical struggle. Kingsley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWestward Ho! \u003c\/i\u003ewere best-sellers which became classics of children’s literature. Kingsley has come to epitomize the Victorian age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn closer inspection, Kingsley is harder to categorize: a socialist who was also an imperialist, a Chartist revolutionary who was Queen Victoria’s favourite novelist, a natural theologian who popularized Darwin, a priest who celebrated sex as sacrament. Kingsley only appears straightforward if you consider him one piece at a time. The debates he shaped remain with us today: faith and sexuality, economics and exploitation, race and identity. The aim of this book is to present the whole man: to consider the public crusades for public health alongside the most private fantasies of sexual intercourse; to consider the ardent imperialist alongside the Darwinist. It will be of interest to all students of Victorian studies, as well as of British\/Imperial history, church history, and especially the history of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56517581898102,"sku":"9780367679323","price":54.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27044216.jpg?v=1761290148","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367679323-charles-kingsley","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}