SOURCE: “‘An Unnatural State’: Gender, ‘Perversion,’ and Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua,” in Victorian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4, Summer, 1992, pp. 359-83.
In the following essay, Buckton claims that the controversy between Newman and Charles Kingsley of the 1860s was a manifestation of Victorian hostility to Newman's religious conversion and perceived sexual ambiguity.
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