Culture and Anarchy and Other Essays (English Version)

Author: (English) Arnold
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy, first published in 1869, is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference point for all subsequent discussions of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions and teaching of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects - Democracy, Equality, and The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. The editor's substantial introductions situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. In order to make Arnold's work accessible to students, this edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide, and full notes on the names, books, and historical events mentioned in the texts.