Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait Paperback - 2008

Name: Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait
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Author: Stefan Collini
ISBN: 9780199541881

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From the publisher

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.

Details

Title Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait
Author Stefan Collini
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 156
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher OUP Oxford
Publication date 2008-04-15
Features Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199541881 / 0199541884
Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
Dimensions 8.03 x 5.11 x 0.4 in (20.40 x 12.98 x 1.02 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Arnold, Matthew - Criticism and
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008277882

About the author

Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. A frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and other periodicals both in Britain and the USA, his other books include Public Moralists (1991), English Pasts (1999), and Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006), all also published by Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.

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