Preface Introduction Chapter 1: John Keble and the Crisis of Tractarianism Chapter 2: Staying Put: John Keble After 1845 Chapter 3: The Anglican Difficulties of Edward Pusey Chapter 4: The Certainty of Vocation: Newman and the Froudes Chapter 5: A Better Country: Newman and Public Life Chapter 6: Newman and the Female Faithful Chapter 7: Newman and Gladstone Chapter 8: Newman, Thackeray and Vanity Fair Chapter 9: Newman and the Americans Chapter 10: On the Track of Truth: Newman and Richard Holt Hutton Chapter 11: Culture and Hollowness: Newman and Matthew Arnold Chapter 12: Newman and Arthur Hugh Clough Chapter 13: Newman on Newman Biographical Index Bibliographical Note Index
A book on John Henry Newman's influence on some of the most fascinating characters of the 19th century - and their influence on him.
Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries. His latest book, Newman and his Family will be published by Bloomsbury in August of 2013. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York.
This book... with its rich cast-list and broad sweep, will be a
valued addition to the libraries not only of the Newmaniacs but of
anyone who takes the 19th century seriously and who wishes to
explore its often alien ideas and characters.
*The Spectator*
This formidably researched and carefully organised book provides a
valuable approach to a much-covered subject from a novel angle. A
very rigorous and readable account of the personal impact of one of
England's greatest intellectuals on a fascinating range of his
contemporaries and is a valuable addition to the Newman
literature.
*The Catholic Herald*
Newman and his Contemporaries sets out to place Newman in context
and in dialogue with a range of his contemporaries. Newman famously
said that 'a man's life is in his letters.' The 30 or so volumes of
Newman's Letters and Diaries provide a significant quarry for
Short's exploration ... In its rich citations from Newman's
correspondence Newman and his Contemporaries reminds us of Newman's
skill as a pastoral theologian and theological apologist ... Newman
saw that there were hard questions for Anglicans to answer, with
which we need to continue to wrestle-about authority, about the
right discernment of development, and, fundamentally, about the
nature of the Church. If this book provokes us to do this, then it
will have achieved one of its purposes.
*Church Times*
Newman and His Contemporaries offers a fresh voice to the field
by... looking at the impact that Blessed Newman had upon a number
of his contemporaries ... Perhaps most impressively, Short
demonstrates an intimate familiarity with the relevant literature,
navigating with ease both Newman's writings as well as the
published works and personal correspondence of Newman's
interlocutors ... His prose is exceedingly readable ... Overall, I
found Short's monograph to be both impressive and also
accessible.
*Catholic Book Reviews*
Edward Short's Newman and His Contemporaries is that most
intellectually satisfying phenomenon; a deeply-researched,
beautifully-written and important book that answers all the
questions it sets itself, and all that any reader may also ask. The
Oxford Movement might not engage many people today, but in
Victorian England it was an absolutely revolutionary concept and
the author blows pure oxygen onto its almost-dead embers in
recreating its crises and controversies. Moreover, the reader
doesn't need to know anything about Tractarianism to enjoy the
perceptive and witty essays covering the Cardinal's relations with
such figures as Gladstone, Thackeray, Arnold, Clough and the
Froudes.
*BBC History Magazine Books of the Year 2011*
Edward Short puts us in contact with Newman's opinions and
decisions, but does so via a well-chosen selection of his
contemporaries. The result is a fresh reading of, and insight into,
the dramatic character of Blessed John Henry Newman's eventful,
even iconic, life. Newman and his Contemporaries can be highly
recommended to both Newman specialists and Newman beginners.
*Irish Theological Quarterly*
Interesting and massive ... Admirers of Ian Ker's John Henry
Newman: A Biography should find Short's book a useful complement to
that study. Despite its 403 pages of dense small print, the main
text reads easily and is full of rich material from Newman's
Letters and Diaries and many other sources. It illuminates
well-known contemporaries of Newman and helpfully introduces others
who are less well-known ... an excellent book which belongs in
every serious library.
*Horizons*
One of the greatest merits of this book (in addition to the
author’s lively style) is Short’s extensive use of Newman’s
correspondence, a voluminous collection of letters that would
otherwise remain largely unknown except to dedicated researchers
... Short allows the sources to speak for themselves and he
presents them in a wonderfully readable and even entertaining
fashion while managing, at the same time, to introduce his readers
to the essential elements of Newman’s theology ... Eminently
readable and enlightening.
*Recusant History*
Throughout he demonstrates an extensive knowledge of the novels,
the criticism each has received, the author’s life, and the Bible
and its traditional exegeses.
*Victorian Studies*
Novelists, social critics, politicians and journalists, scientists
and clergymen are all well-represented ... The numerous photographs
which illustrate the book help to bring its many characters to
life. Highly recommended!
*Newsletter of the Friends of Cardinal Newman*
Here Short offers an engaging account of how [Newman's] inner life
gave manifestation to his role in the public life of the nineteenth
century.
*Touchstone Magazine*
Another Newman book? Well, yes, and a particularly fine one that
explores Newman's relationships with the great ecclesiastical,
literary, political and journalistic figures of his time. Short's
close reading of Newman's vast correspondence also demonstrates
just how many of our post-Vatican II arguments were anticipated in
the 19th century among Newman and his interlocutors.
*First Things Books for Christmas 2011*
Chosen by Andrew Roberts as one of his favourite books on
thedailybeast.com
*www.thedailybeast.com*
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in
Blessed John Henry Newman, especially if they have general
knowledge of Newman's life and works.
*Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation Blog*
In this well-researched book, Edward Short shows how Newman, far
from being the self-absorbed introvert as some have claimed, had a
wide circle of friends who benefited from his extraordinary powers
of empathy. Newman and his Contemporaries is a useful introduction
to this essential quality of the man and will send readers back not
only to Newman's published works but to his wonderful letters.
*Ian Ker, St. Benet's Hall, Oxford, author of John Henry Newman: A
Biography (1988)*
This book is a charming blend of erudition, lively commentary and
judicious selection of sources. Eavesdropping on heart-to-heart
conversations with novelists and social critics, politicians and
journalists, scientists and clergymen, Short has succeeded in
bringing alive some of Newman's most engaging correspondence and
setting it within its proper historical framework. The Newman that
emerges from this study confronts the modern reader on the burning
issues of the times - both his times and ours - and captivates us
by his subtlety of mind, his exquisite prose style and his genius
for friendship.
*Paul Shrimpton, Magdalen College School, Oxford, author of A
Catholic Eton? Newman's Oratory School (2005)*
Newman and His Contemporaries is like a Victorian Dance to the
Music of Time, except the characters are all real historical
figures. Social historians, Spectator readers, literate people in
general, young BXVI generation Catholics and those old enough to
finish the sentence 'Introibo ad Altare Dei' will love it. This is
a book to be taken on a summer holiday and read under a palm tree
with a gin and tonic. Social histories can be boring and sag in the
middle, but this one isn't. It's a soufflé that doesn't flop.
*Tracey Rowland, Dean and Professor of Political Philosophy and
Continental Theology at the John Paul II Institute Melbourne,
Australia, and author of Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope
Benedict XVI (2008)*
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