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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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Literary Criticism

Alexander, Edward. "Dr. Arnold, Matthew Arnold, and the Jews." Alexander examines the two Arnolds' views about Victorian political efforts to grant voting rights to British Jews. Judaism, Spring 2002

Babbitt, Irving. "Matthew Arnold." Influential American cultural critic writes: "Arnold was misunderstood by his contemporaries, not because he was less modern, but because he was more modern than they, and that he is still misunderstood for the same reason." The Nation, 1917

Caldwell, Lauren. "Truncating Coleridgean conversation and the re-visioning of 'Dover Beach.'" Victorian Poetry, Winter 2007.

Clausson, Nils. Arnold's Coleridgean Conversation Poem:" "Dover Beach" and "The Eolian Harp." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2008

Crick, Brian. "Matthew Arnold's Place in the University." New Compass: A Critical Review, Dec. 2004

Ebel, Henry. "Matthew Arnold and Marcus Aurelius." On the central importance of the Stoic emperor and his times to Matthew Arnold's thought. First page of article only. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 3, No. 4, Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1963), pp. 555-566

Farrell, John P. "What I Want the Reader to See: Action and Performance in Arnold's Prose." Also "'What You Feel I Share': Breaking the Dialogue of the Mind with Itself." From Professor Farrell's courses at the University of Texas, Austin

Farrell, John P. "Matthew Arnold: The Writer as Touchstone." From Victorian Poetry, 1988 Spring-Summer; 26 (1-2): 1-10

Farrell, John P. "'The Scholar-Gipsy' and the Continuous Life of Victorian Poetry." Victorian Poetry, Fall 2005

Frame, E. Frances. "Shaping the self: critical perspective and community in Sohrab and Rustum." Victorian Poetry, 22-MAR-07 (taken offline)

Gossman, Lionel. "Philhellenism and antisemitism: Matthew Arnold and his German models." Comparative Literature, Winter 1994

Harrison, Anthony. Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology (Univ. of Virginia Press, 1998). Publisher's blurb

Honan, Park. A review of Honan's Matthew Arnold: A Life (McGraw Hill, 1981), the major biography of Matthew Arnold. Reviewed in Theology Today by Jeffrey Spear

Jones, Tod E. "Matthew Arnold and the Jesus Seminar." Jones contends that Matthew Arnold's writing about the bible best reveals his strength as a critic. Paper presented at the Annual Central NY Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland, October 1997

Lang, Cecil Y., ed. Publisher's site for The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 1-Vol. 6 (Univ. of Va. Press).

Mazzeno, Laurence W. Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy (Boydell & Brewer, 1999). From Google Books

O'Neill, Michael. "'The burden of ourselves': Arnold as a post-Romantic poet." Yearbook of English Studies, 2006. The Year's Work in English Studies says this may be the best article on Arnold of the year.

Rampton, David. "Back to the future: Lionel Trilling, 'The Scholar-Gipsy,' and the state of Victorian poetry." Victorian Poetry, 22 Mar. 2007 (taken offline).

Rapple, Brendan A. "Matthew Arnold and the role of the State." Contemporary Review (March 2002)

Savory, Jerold J. "Matthew Arnold and 'The Author of Supernatural Religion': The Background to God and the Bible." First page of article only. Studies in English Literature 16, Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1976)

Shumaker, Wayne. "Matthew Arnold's Humanism: Literature as a Criticism of Life." First page of article only. Studies in English Literature Vol. 2 , Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1962)

Ward, David A. "Transformed religion: Matthew Arnold and the refining of dissent." Renascence, (2001)

Introduction

"Matthew Arnold." Poetry Foundation. Ed. Catherine Halley. Good, encyclopedia-type introduction to Arnold, his biography, themes, and techniques, with samples of his poems.

Wallace, Jennifer. "Matthew Arnold." Literary Encyclopedia. 7 July, 2001. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to Arnold, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.

"Matthew Arnold." The Victorian Web. Ed. George P. Landow. Essays on Arnold's style, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.

"Matthew Arnold." Brief introduction from the Academy of American Poets

Victorianism

"Victorianism." The Victorian Web. Ed. George P. Landow. Essays topics include Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas; The Complex Realities of Victorianism; Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History; The fundamental conflicts of Victorian poetry; Density and Elaborate Interconnectedness of High and Late Victorian culture; The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry; Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture; Victorian taste; Victorian Design; Race in Thought and Science; Victorian Earnestness; The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination; Tennyson and Victorianism; The Victorian Gentleman; Crisis of Organized Religion; Queen Victoria.

"Monuments and Dust." Eds. Michael Levenson, David Trotter, Anthony Wohl. IATH, U of Va. A project by an international group of scholars who are creating a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London.

Jackson, Lee. "A Dictionary of Victorian London." Victorian social history through a "dictionary" of Victorian institutions.

"Darwin Correspondence Project." Eds. Jim Secord, Janet Browne. Online database of Charles Darwin's correspondence. The Darwin Correspondence Project was begun in 1974 by Frederick Burkhardt with the aid of zoologist Sydney Smith. It is now a searchable, online, open access database that includes complete transcripts of Darwin's letters and letters written to him, staffed by researchers and editors based in the UK at Cambridge University Library, home of the largest existing collection of Darwin's manuscripts, and in the US.

"The Oxford Movement 1833-1845." Catholic Encyclopedia.

Harper's Magazine has articles on Matthew Anrold available online, for subscribers, that go back to 1864.

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