James Walter Caufield, Overcoming Matthew Arnold: Ethics in Culture and Criticism
Of all Victorian poets and critics, few have been so diversely interpreted and subject to contradictory readings as Matthew Arnold. In Overcoming Matthew Arnold, James Walter Caufield seeks to come to terms with the multitudinous perceptions of the writer over the years as being in turn politically...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2014
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Of all Victorian poets and critics, few have been so diversely interpreted and subject to contradictory readings as Matthew Arnold. In Overcoming Matthew Arnold, James Walter Caufield seeks to come to terms with the multitudinous perceptions of the writer over the years as being in turn politically conservative, passive and self-indulgent, as advocating state authoritarianism, high culture and bourgeois hegemony, or more matter-of-factly, lacking rigour and being unmanly by the Victorian sta... |
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