Matthew Arnold : a critical portrait
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Matthew Arnold : a critical portrait
Clarendon Press, 2008, c1994
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Reissued 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable cultural reference point today.
In this stylish and entertaining book Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual controversies of the nineteenth century. By attending to the distinctive power of Arnold's writing to charm, tease, persuade, and irritate, the book provides a brilliant characterization of the tone and temper of his mind.
This edition includes a substantial Afterword which reflects on Arnold's continuing polemical significance and his role in contemporary cultural debate.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Arnoldian Voice
- 2. The life
- 3. The poet
- 4. The literary critic
- 5. The social critic
- 6. The religious critic
- 7. The Arnoldian legacy
- Further reading
- Notes on sources
- Afterword to the Clarendon Paperback Edition
- Supplementary Note on Further Reading
- Index
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