This unique, interdisciplinary and timely volume offers the first major reassessment of Keble’s work for several decades, and a comprehensive introduction to this key figure. ‚John Keble in Context‘ provides a wide range of perspectives on Keble’s place in politics and religion, his writings and his influence on his literary heirs and successors.
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Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; PART I. Reconsiderations: Keble’s Place in Tractarian Politics and Religion: 1. Keble’s Creweian Oration of 1839: The Idea of a Christian University; 2. ‚The Duty of the State‘: Keble; the Tractarians and Establishments; 3. John Keble, National Apostasy, and the Myths of 14 July; John Keble and the Ethos of the Oxford Movement; PART II. Reading Keble’s Writings: The Poet and the Pastor: 5. Ways of Reading 1825: Leisure, Curiosity, and Morbid Eagerness; 6. ‚National Apostasy‘, Tracts For The Times, and Plain Sermons: Keble’s Tractarian Prose; 7. Lyra Innocentium (1846) and its Contexts; PART III. Influence and Resistance: Literary Heirs and Successors: 8. ‚Healing Relief… Without Detriment to Modest Reserve…‘: Keble, Women’s Poetry and Victorian Cultural Theory; 9. ‚Her Silence Speaks‘: Keble’s Female Heirs; 10. ‚For Rigorous Teachers Seized My Youth‘: Thomas Arnold, John Keble and the Juvenilia of Arthur Hugh Clough and Matthew Arnold; 11. In Memoriam and The Christian Year; 12. ‚A Handmaid to the Church‘: How John Keble Shaped the Career of Charlotte Yonge, the ‚Novelist of the Oxford Movement‘