Arnold

Matthew Arnold''s Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work and places it alongside Arnold''s three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context 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 and historical events mentioned in the texts.