Mansex Fine: Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Culture by David Alderson (review)

@article{Fraser2001MansexFR,
  title={Mansex Fine: Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Culture by David Alderson (review)},
  author={Robert D. Fraser},
  journal={The Yearbook of English Studies},
  year={2001},
  volume={31},
  pages={273 - 274}
}
  • R. Fraser
  • Published 1 January 2022
  • History
  • The Yearbook of English Studies
Manly freedom and England's Protestant destiny an anatomy of the British polity - Alton Locke, Christian manliness and the games ethic out of unreality - J.H. Newman hysteric Celts the wreck of an English subject - Gerald Manley Hopkins buggering Gerald - Oscar Wilde and English virtue the poet's war. 
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