Rose, Caroline. “Charles Kingsley Speaking in Public: Empowered or at Risk?” Nineteenth-Century Prose Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 133-150.
In her analysis of Kingsley’s rhetoric and its effects Caroline Rose examines the relationship with his audience, how he was received and his rhetorical strategies of self-legitimation. She also focuses on the mediatory role of Kingsley’s rhetoric, contending that a strong element of Kingsley’s sense of identity was endowed in his role of intermediary. In addition, Rose argues that much of Kingsley’s power as a public speaker was due to his popularizing and promulgating of the ideas and images of degeneration.

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