Williams, R. (2015) Arnold, Matthew, prose. In: Felluga, D., Hughes, L. K. and Gilbert, P. K. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Series: Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature, 1. Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, West Sussex, pp. 85-91. ISBN 9781118405383
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Abstract
Matthew Arnold was one of the most prominent commentators on his age and wrote numerous articles for the contemporary periodical press. A Victorian "man of letters" and Inspector of Schools, Arnold famously advocated exposure amongst the general population to "the best that has been thought and said in the world". His forthright yet elegant writing on the role of criticism as a civilizing process provoked lively debate in the Victorian period and proved enormously influential in the establishment of the disciplines of literary and cultural studies in the century following his death. Recognising that the "centre of movement" was then in the "fermenting mind of the nation", Arnold responded widely and regularly to what he identified as an urgent need for culture at a time of pressing social change.
| Item Type: | Book Sections (Encyclopaedia entry) |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Williams, Dr Rhian |
| Authors: | Williams, R. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell |
| ISBN: | 9781118405383 |
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