Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the authoritative text 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 introduction situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. 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.

ISBN 052137796X   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521377966 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 400 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Geuss, Raymond, Skinner, Quentin Format Paperback   Series title Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Publication date 18 Feb 1993   Previous ISBN 9780521374408 Library of Congress HN389 .A72 1993   Height (mm) 216 DEWEY 306.0941   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY edition DC20   Spine width (mm) 18 Pages 282   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

Introduction; Chronology; Bibliographical note; Note on the texts and acknowledgements; Democracy (1861); The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864); Culture and Anarchy: An essay in political and social criticism (1867-9); Equality (1878); Index.

"[Collini's] introduction is helpful in providing a historical context for the complex origins of Arnold's book, and it incorporates insights about the 'arnoldian voice' from his 1988 book. The chief importance of this publication may be that it reinforces the recent trend of treating Arnold as a 'political' thinker..." Clinton Machann, (source ???)

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