Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold

Overview

Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. Arnold's famous writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection." He further wrote that: "Culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604597011
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	05/26/2009
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Jane Garnett is a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford. She is a founder member of the editorial board of the Journal Victorian Culture.

Table of Contents

	Editor's Preface	vii
	Editor's Introduction	xi
	Author's Preface	3
	Introduction	39
Chapter I	Sweetness and Light	43
Chapter II	Doing as one Likes	72
Chapter III	Barbarians, Philistines, Populace	98
Chapter IV	Hebraism and Hellenism	129
Chapter V	Porro Unum Est Necessarium	145
Chapter VI	Our Liberal Practitioners	165
	Conclusion	202
	Notes	213
	Bibliography	239