Fasick, Laura. “The Failure of Fatherhood: Maleness
and Its Discontents in Charles Kingsley,” Children's Literature Association
Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 1993): 106-111.
Fasick declares that Kingsley's ideal of hyper-masculinity coexisted
with his recognition of the need of such moral qualities of humility, gentleness,
and patience. However, she contends that Kingsley, who tended to
prize the former ideal more highly, found it difficult to combine these
two distinct spectra and certainly failed to illustrate their union in
his novels. "Despite his homage to gentleness and patience, Kingley's
real attraction is apparently to the displays of power and aggression with
which he adorns his novels" (109).
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