Contents

David J. DeLaura, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

[Victorian Web Home —> Authors —> John Henry Newman —> Matthew Arnold —> Walter Pater]

Frontmatter

• Abbreviations
• Introduction

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 Arrioldian 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 the 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 (not included in on-line version)

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Last modified November 2000