The document summarizes the Oxford Movement, a 19th century movement within the Church of England. It was led by John Keble, John Henry Newman, and others who wanted to emphasize the church's Catholic heritage and oppose liberalism. The movement published tracts and translations of early Christian writings. Though primarily religious, it influenced later Victorian literature through inspiring the Pre-Raphaelites and poets like Hopkins. Newman eventually left the Church of England and joined the Catholic Church.

1. Paper Name : VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Presentation Topic: THE OXFORD MOVEMENT
Sem : 2
Name: Solanki Pintu V
Roll No : 31
Enrollment No: PG15101037
Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.com
Submitted to :
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSUTY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

2.  The Oxford Movement was a movement of
High Church members of the Church of
England which eventually developed into
Anglo-Catholicism.
 The Oxford Movement was religious rather
than literary.
 The movement was also known as the
“Tractarian Movement” after its series of
publications, the tracts for the Times,
published from 1833 to 1841.

3.  The group began a collection of translations of
the Church Fathers, which they called the
Library of the Fathers.
 The collection eventually ran to 48 volumes,
the last published three years after Pusey’s
death.
 A number of volumes of original Greek and
Latin texts was also published.

4. Oxford movement was not political movement
but as it opposed liberalism in all its aspect, the
Oxford leaders derived much from the
philosophy of conservatism.

5. Men behind the movement
John Keble John Henry Newman
He was the originator of this
movement.
He was the professor of
poetry at oxford.
He started this movement.
But he was a Saintly, simple,
quiet, modest and sweet
natured simplicity had its
beauty and its charm.
He was the true soul and
spirit behind the Oxford
movement.
He was a genius of broad
sweep of wider range.
He began as a protestant
and ended as a roman
catholic.

6. This movement had following particular aims
behind it.
1. To bring back the dignity of church
2. To oppose the state authority over the church
3. To oppose liberalism in all aspect of life
4. To restore the old customs of the church
Aims of this movement:

7.  The movement postulated the Branch Theory,
which states that Anglicanism along with
Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism from three
“branches” of the historic Catholic Church.
 Three “branches” - Holy, Catholic and
Apostolic Church.
 Newman’s final reception into the Roman
Catholic Church in 1845, followed by Henry
Edward Manning in 1851, had a profound
effect upon the Movement.

8.  One of the principal writers and proponents of
the Tractarian Movement was John Henry
Newman, a popular Oxford priest who, after
writing his final tract.
 He was one of a number of Anglican clergy
who were received into the Roman Catholic
Church during the 1840s who were either
members of, or were influenced by, the
Tractarian Movement.

9. The failure
The Oxford Movement failed because
its appeal to the authority of a Catholic
tradition was not of sufficient defense
of the catholic religion against the
attack of scientific and the historical
criticism.

10. Influence on next generation
The Oxford movement was definitely a religious
movement but it had influence on the literary
taste of its age.
It inspired the poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites,
Though some of them were indifferent to its
theological implications it influenced the poetry
of D.G.Rossetti, G.M. Hopkins, Coventry
Patmore, R.W. Dixon