Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait

by Stefan Collini

Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable cultural reference point today.

In this stylish and entertaining book Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual controversies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199541884
• ISBN13: 9780199541881
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"