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The Influence of the Oxford Movement on Poetry and Fiction

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Blair K (2017) The Influence of the Oxford Movement on Poetry and Fiction. In: Brown SJ, Nockles P & Pereiro J (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 410-416. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-oxford-movement-9780199580187?cc=gb&lang=en&#

Abstract
First paragraph: In the twentieth and twenty-first century, the Oxford Movement has received a very substantial amount of attention as a literary movement, not simply a historical or theological phenomenon. It is difficult to study the politics or theology of Tractarianism without taking into account that of the three men most generally associated with it, Keble was primarily famous as a poet rather than for any of his prose works, and Newman had a substantial if not equal reputation for poetry and fiction. More importantly than their own literary productions, the leaders and followers of Tractarianism in its early days placed an extremely high value on literature – the right kind of literature – and never lost sight of its importance as a means of disseminating ideology. Private reading, as Joshua King’s recent study demonstrates, would become a means of imagining ‘participation in a national Christian community’, created and sustained by the circulation of ideas in Victorian print culture (King 2015: 14).

StatusPublished
FundersUniversity of Strathclyde
Title of seriesOxford Handbooks
Publication date31/12/2017
Publication date online08/06/2017
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/34176
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher URLhttps://global.oup.com/…?cc=gb&lang=en&#
Place of publicationOxford
ISBN9780199580187

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Professor Kirstie Blair

Professor Kirstie Blair

Dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, AH Management and Support Team