This book is devoted to the writings of the Evangelical and Oxford
movements, whose leading members were key figures in the religious
debate that so preoccupied early Victorian society. The Evangelical
writers included here - Charles Simeon, Francis Close, William Goode and
Edward Miall - enjoyed wide influence in their own day but their
writings are now either forgotten or largely inaccessible. The writers
in the Oxford Movement represented here - Keble, Williams, Newman and
Pusey - are better known, though only Newman's prose has received much
attention. By concentrating upon the period 1825 to 1850 Dr Jay is able
to show the complex social, educational, and political influences on the
religious debate and to trace the dynamics of the relationship between
the two movements. This book will prove to be an indispensable tool for
all serious students of nineteenth-century literature, history and
theology.