The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
, by Harrison, Antony H.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780821419007 | 0821419005
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/20/2010
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions. "The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold" investigates these constructions by situating Arnold's poetry in a number of contexts that partially shaped it. Antony H. Harrison reopens discussion of selected works by Arnold in order to make visible some of their crucial sociohistorical, intertextual, and political components. Only by doing so can we ultimately view the cultural work of Arnold "steadily and . . . whole," and in a fashion that actually eschews this mystifying premise of all Arnoldian inquiry which, by the early twentieth century, had become wholly naturalized in the academy as ideology.