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Overcoming Matthew Arnold: Ethics in Culture and Criticism

Overcoming Matthew Arnold: Ethics in Culture and Criticism

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138111031
ISBN13: 9781138111035
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 22 2017
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of 'culture' and 'conduct.' He argues that Arnoldian conduct is grounded in an ethic of 'renouncement' that wholly informs both his poetry and prose and has continuing relevance to much contemporary ethical criticism.

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