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Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England - David Delaura

Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England

Newman, Arnold, and Pater

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396 Seiten
1969
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-76860-4 (ISBN)
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This book explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture.
Hebrew and Hellene explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture. Fundamentally concerned with the humanistic vision of Arnold and Pater, especially as they adapted the traditional religious culture to the needs of their generation, David DeLaura also recognizes Newman's central role. To a far greater degree than has been realized, Newman assumed a commanding position in the thought of the two younger men.

DeLaura seeks to define the mechanics of the process by which the conservative religious humanism of Newman could be exploited in the fluid, relativistic, and "aesthetic" humanism of Pater. The careers of Arnold and Pater are viewed as a continuing effort to reconcile the opposing forces of one of the central modern myths, the great cultural struggle between religious and secular values—Arnold's Hebraism and Hellenism.

DeLaura traces this important movement in nineteenth-century culture by studying the development of key phrases and ideas in the writings of the three men: the secularization of Newman's ideal of "inwardness" in Arnold's "criticism" and "culture" and in Pater's "impassioned contemplation"; the shared emphasis on an elite culture; the growing tendency to identify culture with the functions of traditional religion.

Newman, as the supreme apologist of both religious orthodoxy and the older Oxonian tradition, offered a rich arsenal to the defenders of a literary culture increasingly threatened by the utilitarian spirit (!nd by a rising scientific naturalism. Moreover, with the appearance of his Apologia in 1864, the "mystery" and the "miracle" of Newman's personality intrigued a new literary generation.

In Hebrew and Hellene DeLaura looks beyond the debates of the Late Victorians, the immediate inheritors of this legacy, to the continuing twentieth-century discussion of the nature of literature, its place in the humanizing process, and its role in a science-dominated civilization. He finds the problems faced by Pater, Arnold, and Newman—and some of their solutions—surprisingly relevant to unfinished contemporary debate.

David J. DeLaura (1930–2005) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Arnold and Newman: Humanism and the Oxford Tradition

Part I. The Oxford Sentiment

Chapter 1. The Oriel Inheritance
Chapter 2. The Quarrel of Reason and Faith
Chapter 3. The Onslaught on the Philistines
Chapter 4. Newman and the Religion of Culture


Part II. The Religion of the Future

Chapter 5. Development and the Zeitgeist
Chapter 6. Literature and Dogma
Chapter 7. Catholicism and the Future of Religion
Chapter 8. Newman and the Future of Poetry
Chapter 9. Newman and the Center of the Arnoldian Vision




Arnold, Pater, and the Dialectic of Hebraism and Hellenism

Part I. The Scarce Remediable Cleavage

Chapter 10. The Dialectical Impulse
Chapter 11. The Hellenism of Arnold and Pater
Chapter 12. The Sources


Part II. Arnold, Pater, and the Reinstatement of Man

Chapter 13. “Coleridge” and the Higher Morality
Chapter 14. “Winckelmann” and Pagan Religious Sentiment
Chapter 15. Arnold, Pater, and the Supreme, Artistic View of Life
Chapter 16. The Renaissance
Chapter 17. Arnold, Pater, and the Complete Religion of the Greeks


Part III. Pater and the Third Condition of Humanity

Chapter 18. Toward Marius: Aesthetic Worship
Chapter 19. Marius and the Necessity of Religion
Chapter 20. Gaston and the Lower Pantheism
Chapter 21. Plato and Pater’s Double Vision




Pater and Newman: The Road to the Nineties

Chapter 22. Newman and the Rhetoric of Aestheticism
Chapter 23. Newman and the Theology of Marius
Chapter 24. The “Style” of Humanism
Chapter 25. Newman, Arnold, Pater, and the Future


Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index

Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-292-76860-5 / 0292768605
ISBN-13 978-0-292-76860-4 / 9780292768604
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