Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. This edition reproduces the original book version and enables readers to appreciate its immediate historical context as well as the reasons for its continued importance today, in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. How can individuals be educated, not indoctrinated, and what is the role of the state in disseminating 'sweetness and light'? Unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England. He contrasts culture, 'the study of perfection', with anarchy, the mood of Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need of it' in an age of rapid social change and increasing mechanization. And sigh that one thing only has been lent To youth and age in commondiscontent. And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy Despair. 'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.'
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