Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life
Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies. Machann challenges the popular image of Arnold as an elitist intellectual and shows how his poetry and prose grew out of his personal life and his passionate engagement with the world, emphasizing the journal publications that drove his career as a literary, social and religious critic.
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Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life
Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies. Machann challenges the popular image of Arnold as an elitist intellectual and shows how his poetry and prose grew out of his personal life and his passionate engagement with the world, emphasizing the journal publications that drove his career as a literary, social and religious critic.
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Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life

Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life

by C. Machann
Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life

Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life

by C. Machann

Paperback(1998)

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Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies. Machann challenges the popular image of Arnold as an elitist intellectual and shows how his poetry and prose grew out of his personal life and his passionate engagement with the world, emphasizing the journal publications that drove his career as a literary, social and religious critic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333633779
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 03/18/1998
Series: Literary Lives
Edition description: 1998
Pages: 177
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CLINTON MACHANN

Table of Contents

Abbreviations of Frequently-Cited Sources - Preface - Juvenilia - The Strayed Reveller (1849), Empedocles on Etna (1852), Poems (1853) - Poems, Second Series (1854), Merope (1857), On Translating Homer (1861), The Popular Education of France (1861) - Essays in Criticism (1865), New Poems (1867) - Culture and Anarchy (1869), Friendship's Garland (1871) - St Paul and Protestantism (1870), Literature and Dogma (1873), God and the Bible (1875), Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877) - Mixed Essays (1879), Irish Essays (1882), Discourses in America (1885), Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888) - Conclusion - Suggestions for Further Reading - Notes - Index
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