Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Novelist, 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 The Water-Babies and Westward Ho! were best-sellers which became classics of children's literature. Kingsley has come to epitomize the Victorian age.On 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 natu…
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Weitere Autoren: Klaver, Jan Marten Ivo (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-029832-1
- EAN: 9781000298321
- Produktnummer: 35348525
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'275 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Jonathan Conlin is senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Southampton.Jan Marten Ivo Klaver is professor of English Literature and culture at the University of Urbino.
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