Bibliograph

Matthew Arnold, a literary life, Clinton Machann

Type

Label

Matthew Arnold, a literary life, Clinton Machann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Matthew Arnold

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Clinton Machann

Series statement

Literary lives

Sub title

a literary life

Summary

This text 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 engagement with the world, emphasizing the journal publications that drove his career as a literary, social, and religious critic., 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

Target audience

specialized

Classification