Footnote 5, Introduction, of the author's Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater, which University of Texas Press published in 1969. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
The rise of a "literary" Catholicism, often very different from the actual Catholic culture around it, in such Victorian and Late Victorian figures as Coventry Patmore, the Wards, the Meynells, Aubrey De Vere, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins is heavily indebted to Newman's example and influence but has never been coherently examined from this point of view. Newman's role in the still unfinished "Modernist" episode in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as its reverberations in the Church of England, has also escaped close examination.
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