Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideological links between muscular Christianity and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, Emerson, Dickens, Hughes, MacDonald and Pater, and to explore the use of images of hyper-masculinized male bodies to represent social as well as physical ideals. Muscular Christianity argues that the ideologies of the movement were extreme versions of common cultural conceptions, and that anxieties evident in Muscular Christian texts, often manifested through images of the body as a site of socio-political conflict, were pervasive throughout society. Throughout, muscular Christianity is shown to be at the heart of issues of gender, class and national identity in the Victorian age. 244pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep.
Cambridge University Press, 1994, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0521453186

Inventory #24539

Price: £ 35.00 GBP ($ 45.61 approx. - € 38.68 approx.)

Although the book centres on an intensive study of five specific pictures,united by a provocative Prologue and Epilogue,the quest for identities has necessitated a close consideration of a number of works by other painters.The 'myth' of Giorgione has been critically examined and evidence from an exceptionally wide field of studies has been advanced in support of the author's proposed solutions to a variety of long outstanding problems.219pp.
Nadder Books, 1983, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. D/J in Protective Wrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0906540364

Inventory #21891

Price: £ 6.50 GBP ($ 8.47 approx. - € 7.18 approx.)

Taking off from Bakke the authors retrace the history of the conflict of ideas over equality from the arguments of Thomas Jefferson and the Lincoln-Douglas debates to the post-Civil War introduction of Jim Crow laws down to Brown vs Board of Education and the civil rights revolution of the 1950s. Annotated and suggested reading list.243pp. Slight rubbing at head of cover spine. Two small indentations to rear d/j and some faint dust-marking.
Basic Books, 1979, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Good/Price Clipped. . D/J in Protective Wrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0465014348

Inventory #3605

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 6.52 approx. - € 5.53 approx.)

VOLUME 2 ONLY. 444pp.
Harper & Row, 1989, Paperback, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Second Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0060453478

Inventory #27758

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.77 approx. - € 8.29 approx.)

This study looks at the work of Danish architects in Greece from 1818 to 1862. 383pp.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1993, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 8772885009

Inventory #19978

Price: £ 25.00 GBP ($ 32.58 approx. - € 27.63 approx.)