Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion
Autor John Maynarden Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521115339
ISBN-10: 0521115337
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0521115337
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. Introduction: the subject somewhat broadly conceived; 2. From Cloister to 'Great Sinful Streets': Arthur Hugh Clough and the Victorian 'Question of Sex'; 3. Sexual Christianity: Charles Kingsley's Via Media; 4. Known and unknown desire: Coventry Patmore's search for eros; 5. Conclusion: Hardy's Jude: disassembling sexuality and religion.
Notă biografică
Emeritus Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He has held several major positions and served on numerous prominent organisations and committees including, Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (Australian National University) Stanner Fellowship in 1996, the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellow 2003, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 2004, University of Newcastle Researcher of the Year 2008 and 2012. In 2014 he was elected a member of the prestigious Australian Social Sciences Academy and in 2020 made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He gained his PhD in 2003, examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism. He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities, urban, rural, and remote. Professor Maynard's publications have concentrated on the intersections of Aboriginal political and social history, and the history of Australian race relations.
Descriere
This original and provocative study looks at literary and cultural discourses relating to sexuality and religion in Victorian England.