Document Type
Article
Abstract
A paper for the Victorian Institute, 2007, where the theme was Victorian Secrets. Discusses the Tractarian doctrine of reserve in Isaac Williams and John Keble, and the non-reserve of R.H. Froude and F.W. Faber, and then considers the influence of the idea in Tennyson, Arnold, and Clough, concluding that far from the Tractarian doctrine of reserve being specifically Tractarian, ... reserve, concealment, the principled rejection of promiscuous self-expression, is a widespread phenomenon in Victorian culture because of cognitive or epistemological self-consciousness... The Tractarians, pompous, prickly, self-important, self-deluding, snobbish, ... nonetheless were onto something significant for their age, for many who were not Tractarians, when they asserted the doctrine of reserve, even if they hid ... its significance by robing it in a traditionally and culturally-sanctioned religious language. .
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2007.
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Literature in English, British Isles Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons