1st Edition
Charles Kingsley Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Foreword: Amyas and Me: A Personal History of Charles Kingsley
John Sutherland
Introduction: Charles Kingsley: "The Most Typical Victorian of Them All"
Jan Marten Ivo Klaver and Jonathan Conlin
1. "Love Me! Baby! Love God!": Courtship, Marriage, and the Emergence of a Kingsleyan Ascetics, 1839–1845
Jonathan Conlin
2. A "Yeasty State of Mind": Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Self-Culture
Richard Salmon
3. "To Amuse Merely as a Novel": Alton Locke (1850) and Literary Pleasure
Francis O’Gorman
4. Effeminate: Kingsley and the History of an Epithet
James Eli Adams
5. How Odd is Kingsley’s Hypatia?
Simon Goldhill
6. The Fly in the Amber: The Controversy with Newman
Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
7. Kingsley’s Muscular Poetics
Herbert F. Tucker
8. Kingsley’s Old Testament Heroes
Gareth Atkins
9. Charles Kingsley and the Evolution of Man and Morals in The Water-Babies
Piers J. Hale
10. Evolutionary and Anglican Afterlives: Death as a Sacrament in Kingsley’s Water Babies
Alan Rauch
11. Kingsley on Race and Empire
Theodore Koditschek
12. Kingsley and the Irish
Norman Vance
13. Histories and Historians
Leslie Howsam
Afterword: Charles Kingsley as Polymath
Bernard Lightman
Biography
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.
