Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England : : Newman, Arnold, and Pater / / David DeLaura.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: DeLaura, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Arnold and Newman: Humanism and the Oxford Tradition -- PART I THE OXFORD SENTIMENT -- CHAPTER ONE The Oriel Inheritance -- CHAPTER TWO The Quarrel of Reason and faith -- CHAPTER THREE The Onslaught on the Philistines -- CHAPTER FOUR Newman and the Religion of Culture -- PART II THE RELIGION Of THE FUTURE -- CHAPTER FIVE Development and the Zeitgeist -- CHAPTER SIX Literature and Dogma -- CHAPTER SEVEN Catholicism and the future of Religion -- CHAPTER EIGHT Newman and the future of Poetry -- CHAPTER NINE Newman and the Center of the Arnoldian Vision -- Arnold, Pater and the Dialectic of Hebraism and Hellenism -- PART I THE SCARCE REMEDIABLE CLEAVAGE -- CHAPTER TEN The Dialectical Impulse -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Hellenism of Arnold and Pater -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Sources -- PART II ARNOLD, PATER, AND THE REINSTATEMENT Of MAN -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN "Coleridge" and the Higher Morality -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN "Winckelmann" and Pagan Religious Sentiment -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Arnold, Pater, and the Supreme, Artistic View of Life -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Renaissance -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Arnold, Pater, and the Complete Religion of the Greeks -- PART III PATER AND THE THIRD CONDITION Of HUMANITY -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Toward Marius; Aesthetic Worship -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Marius and the Necessity of Religion -- CHAPTER TWENTY Gaston and the Lower Pantheism -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Plato and Pater's Double Vision -- Pater and Newman: The Road to the Nineties -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Newman and the Rhetoric of Aestheticism -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Newman and the Theology of Marius -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The "Style" of Humanism -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Newman, Arnold, Pater, and the future -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX