The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...
Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...
The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...
Incorrect times for Lancaster Literary Guild lectures were inadvertently published on last week's Books page. Authors Jean- Robert Cadet ("Restavec") and Duncan Blanchard ("The Snowflake Man") will speak at 7 p.m. on respective Wednesdays, Jan. 18 and 23, in West Liberty Place auditorium. ...
Atlantic history is a notoriously fluid construct. There is no static historical unit for Atlantic historians to analyze, no one religion, culture, or political tradition shared by what Bernard Bailyn calls the basin's "multitudinous ... people and circumstances," and, despite the field's continued growth...
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