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List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: muscularChristianity: reading and writing the male social body Donald E. Hall; PartI. Foundations of Muscular Christianity: 1. The volcano and the cathedral:muscular Christianity and the origins of primal manliness David Rosen; 2. Onthe making and unmaking of monsters: Christian socialism, muscularChristianity, and the metaphorization of class conflict Donald E. Hall; 3.Christian manliness and national identity: the problematic construction of aracially 'pure' nation C. J. W.-L. Wee; Part II: Varieties of MuscularChristianity: 4. Charles Kingsley's scientific treatment of gender LauraFasick; 5. Young England: muscular Christianity and the politics of the bodyin Tom Brown's Schooldays Dennis W. Allen; 6. Muscular spirituality in GeorgeMacDonald's Curdie Books John Pennington; 7. 'Degenerate effeminacy' and themaking of a masculine spirituality in the sermons of Ralph Waldo EmersonSusan L. Roberson; Part III. Responses to Muscular Christianity: 8. Theconfidence man: empire and the deconstruction of muscular Christianity in TheMystery of Edwin Drood David Faulkner; 9. The re-subjection of 'Lucas Malet':Charles Kingsley's daughter and the response to muscular ChristianityPatricia Srebrnik; 10. Pater's muscular aestheticism James Eli Adams; Index.