Goslee s study maintains that Newman s Anglican writing, although widely considered irrelevant to the main currents of the post-Enlightenment, in fact reinterprets Romantic transcendence within a uniquely dialogic paradigm. It is this paradigm, he argues, that critics need to explore as a link between sacred and secular domains within Victorian culture.
Goslee s own exploration is accomplished in three parts. First he describes Newman s early renunciation of modern thought, then analyzes the dialogic Romanticism that informs New man s Anglican works, particularly its power to expand his...