In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations; militarism and hymnody; male homosexuality and homoeroticism. The book is not afraid to explore controversial areas, nor to go beyond the generally acknowledged 'canon' of prescribers of gender identity: it includes, for example, leading nonconformist figures like William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and early gay writers like John Addington Symonds.

HOWARD J. BOOTH Lecturer, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London CAROL MARIE ENGELHARDT Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio PHILIP HEALY Director of Academic and External Affairs, Westminster College, Oxford LAURA LAUER Author NEIL MCCAW Lecturer in English Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester LORI M. MILLER Researcher FRANCIS O'GORMAN Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Leeds FREDERICK S. RODEN Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut J. R. WATSON Research Professor of English, University of Durham CATHERINE WELLS-COLE Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey, Roehampton

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