Charles Kingsley

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 -- "Love me! Baby! Love God!" : courtship, marriage, and the emergence of a Kingsleyan ascetics, 1839-1845 / Jonathan Conlin -- A "yeasty state of mind" : Charles Kingsley and the problem of self-culture / Richard Salmon -- "To amuse merely as a novel" : Alton Locke (1850) and literary pleasure / Francis O'Gorman -- Effeminate : Kingsley and the history of an epithet / James Eli Adams -- How odd is Kingsley's Hypatia? / Simon Goldhill -- The fly in the amber: the controversy with Newman / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver -- Kingsley's muscular poetics / Herbert F. Tucker -- Kingsley's Old Testament heroes / Gareth Atkins -- Charles Kingsley and the evolution of man and morals in The water-babies / Piers J. Hale -- Evolutionary and Anglican afterlives : death as a sacrament in Kingsley's Water babies / Alan Rauch -- Kingsley on race and empire / Theodore Koditschek -- Kingsley and the Irish Norman Vance -- Histories and historians / Leslie Howsam -- Afterword: Charles Kingsley as polymath / Bernard Lightman.