The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley Book

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations

Introduction

THE DEVIL AND THE FLESH
1. Semi-Sensual Delights of Ear and Eye (1819–1838)
2. Noble Courts and Cloisters and Bold, Bedizened Women (1838–1842)
3. Making of the Debauchee a Preacher of Purity and Holiness (1842–1843)
4. Who Can Tell Whither the Wind May Waft Its Seeds When the Crop Is Ripe? (1844–1845)
5. What Right Have I to Arrogate Christ’s Bride-Bed? (1846–1847)

CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
6. The Flag and the Horns (1848)
7. Addle Brain, Hoggish Life, and the Wild Longing to Do Something (1849)
8. Red-hot Shot Against the Devil’s Dung-heap (1850)
9. What Are We To Do With the Christian Socialists? (January–June 1851)
10. He Bade Her Change Her Nun’s Dress (July–December 1851)

MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY
11. The Energetic Healthy Animal Man (1852)
12. Which the Young and Innocent Will Do Well to Leave Altogether Unread (1853)
13. A Little of the Wolf-vein (1854)
14. A Most Ruthless Bloodthirsty Book ( January–June 1855)

SANITARY REFORM
15. Alone among Mankind, on a Cliff which is Crushing beneath One ( July 1855–December 1856)
16. A Literary Man, a Modern Hercules, and a Country Clergyman (1857)
17. A Minute Philosopher (1858)
18. An Excellent Darwinian (1859–1860)

ENEMIES
19. Cambridge In Magnificent Repose (1861–1862)
20. Truth, For Its Own Sake (1863–1864)
21. In Much Mire (1865–1866)
22. God’s Facts, Instead of Men’s Lies (1866–1867)
23. The Ugly After-Crop of Superstition (1868–1869)

OLD AND NEW WORLDS
24. The Dream of Forty Years (1870–1872)
25. The Great Young Free New World (1873–1874)
26. No More Fighting (1874–1875)

Conclusion

Bibliography Index