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Matthew Arnold and the Romantics
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Literature and Education: Recalling Matthew Arnold
… is thought to have the potential to achieve what Matthew Arnold considers the supreme characteristic of intellectual freedom, "the intellectual maturity of man himself; the tendency to observe facts with a critical spirit; to search for their law, not to wander among them at random; to judge by …
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The English Reputation of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1877
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The Flawing Effect of Ambivalence in Selected Poetry of Matthew Arnold
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The major critical evaluations of the religious writings of Matthew Arnold, 1888-1965.
In 1863 Matthew Arnold first ventured from his more secure field of poetry and literary criticism to enter the religious controversy in England, a controversy largely involving the publications Essays and Reviews (1860) and Colenso's The Pentateuch ... Critically Examined (1862). From 1869 to 1877 …
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Classical stoicism and romantic passion : the golden mean in Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult".
In "Tristram and Iseult," Matthew Arnold attempts to find the balance between calmness and passion in an effort to discover a way of life suitable to the problems of modernity. In the poem, Tristram and la belle Iseult demonstrate Romantic passion, and Iseult le Blanche Mains practices Classical …
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Arnold and Pater on Wordsworth
… opposed than the two great Victorian critics, Matthew Arnold and Walter Horatio Pater. Each represents an entirely different viewpoint in nineteenth century criticism. Arnold constantly seeks "disinterestedness," a position which removes one from personal prejudices; he opposes the excesses of …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… how the Victorian cultural critics John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde used taste to connect aesthetics to ethics as they alternately participated in and resisted two powerful trends: the increasing tendency to imagine the aesthetic as an autonomous realm unconnected to other kinds of …
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Inhabiting liberalism: politics, culture, and the spaces of masculine professionalism, 1823-1903
… Palace—as John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Besant adapted, imagined, or lived in them and represented them in literary texts, I delineate the relationship between liberalism and the physical locations of its production and reception.
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… from the self-consciously 'high' poetry of Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to the popular Gothic novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… thinkers—including Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill—actively grappled with issues of faith and rationality in a rapidly-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape. Prefiguring many of the key insights of the so-called “postsecular turn,” the …
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Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century
… patterns - the 'climate of opinion' or what Matthew Arnold called the 'main movement of mind' of the age; of trying to press disparate, multifarious and often carelessly formulated ideas and assumptions into a conceptual framework or theoretical construct that was independently arrived at and …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… by John Lubbock and E. B. Tylor influence what Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater debate as “the pagan sentiment.” The rest of the project concerns forms of what I call “pagan affectations,” authorial personae which cultivate counter-secular, pagan modes of subjectivity that make room for kinds of …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… educational theorists, such as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Henry Huxley — quite often considered intellectually opposite one another. Focusing on the significant connections between these theorists, rather than their, declared, differences, allows me to posit new reasons …
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School Certificate Examinations in England, 1918-1950 A historical investigation of the formation and maintenance of a national examination system: Examination Boards, teachers and the state
… external examinations, such as that promoted by Matthew Arnold and Michael Sadler based on the German Abitur, are also shown as persuasively supported by those who wanted the examination system to be more teacher-controlled. The Bryce Report’s (1895) advocacy of decentralised administration is …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… Lyell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, David Friedrich Strauss, Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. One effect of the limits of language was on religious belief itself, specifically as pertains to intelligent design (independently of questions …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
… in <em>Ideas</em> stem directly from those of Matthew Arnold and Edward Fitzgerald. The lament over the passing of time, the nostalgia for the Romantic paradise when many were losing faith in the “idea of order” that informed the Romantics’ optimistic vision, still drift over the Western world, …
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People not Print: Exploring Engineering Future Possible Self Development in Rural Areas of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau
This study explores how students in rural areas of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau area perceive engineering as a future career. This area is a portion of the greater Appalachian region, which has historically, faced disproportionate economic struggles when compared to other areas of the United …
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Houses
… that most modern poetry is engaged in what Matthew Arnold called “the dialogue of the mind with itself,” and that the appearance of multiple voices in poetry can be attributed to this development:</p> <p>My use of multiple voices or selves (all fragments of the larger Self of the poem) in …