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Ker's reading of these six major writers should appeal to anyone with an interest in 19th- and 20th-century English literature, or the relation between literature and theology.

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“In England, the period between John Henry Newman’s conversion in 1845 and the beginning of Vatican II in 1962 was a golden age for Catholic writing. A good introduction to the central figures in this story is provided by Ian Ker in The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845–1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh. . . . Even readers who are already very familiar with the work of the six writers will find this book highly rewarding.” -- National Review

The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 is original, engaging, and well written. It will make a major contribution to a variety of disciplines in which the Catholic literary tradition is studied.

Ker's study is an engaging work. It serves well as an introductory book for those interested in the Catholic literary revival, and offers the scholar an insightful reading of these authors and their texts by a fine theologian and literary critic. --Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1-2, 2006

In England, the period between John Henry Newman's conversion in 1845 and the beginning of Vatican II in 1962 was a golden age for Catholic writing. A good introduction to the central figures in this story is provided by Ian Ker in The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh. . . . Even readers who are already very familiar with the work of the six writers will find this book highly rewarding. --National Review

The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 is original, engaging, and well written. It will make a major contribution to a variety of disciplines in which the Catholic literary tradition is studied. In England, the period between John Henry Newman's conversion in 1845 and the beginning of Vatican II in 1962 was a golden age for Catholic writing. A good introduction to the central figures in this story is provided by Ian Ker in The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh. . . . Even readers who are already very familiar with the work of the six writers will find this book highly rewarding. --National Review Ker's study is an engaging work. It serves well as an introductory book for those interested in the Catholic literary revival, and offers the scholar an insightful reading of these authors and their texts by a fine theologian and literary critic. --Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1-2, 2006 What impresses is the sheer range of Ian Ker's scholarship. He moves freely across the considerable oeuvres of the six authors he has chosen, is at home with Roman Catholic and Protestant theology and liturgy, and is capable, when needs must, of delivering a well-aimed blow at ill-informed critics. --Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University Ian Ker, the Dean of Newman scholars, has written a masterpiece of literary criticism as well as a kind of theological primer. The brilliant survey that makes up the Introduction is followed by the remarkable individual studies, each of which sustains his thesis while remaining superbly controlled, with not a superfluous line or quotation. He wears his profound knowledge of these splendid six and their works with consummate grace and writes, as ever, with elegance. --Marvin R. O'Connell, University of Notre Dame Ian Ker's authoritative approach to key material on Catholic writers is of major biographical importance, I think. His book is elegantly written, critically surprising and subtle, and richly rewarding. --Park Honan, author of Shakespeare: A Life

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Ian Ker is Catholic Chaplain at Oxford University and a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall. He is editor of John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University; John Henry Newman: An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent; coeditor of The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, volumes 1-4; and author of John Henry Newman: A Biography.

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