Matthew Arnold: Select Bibliography


Anderson, W.D. Matthew Arnold and the Classical Tradition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965.

Bahr, Katherine. “The Function of Matthew Arnold's Criticism: Resolution and Independence” Nineteenth Century Prose Volume 34, Issues 1-2 (2007): 89-114.

Bashford, Bruce. “ Humanism and the Humanism of Matthew Arnold's 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'” Essays in Literature Volume Volume 18, Issue 2 (1991): 196-210 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Brown, E.K. Matthew Arnold: A Study in Conflict. Toronto & Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.

Buckley, Vincent. Poetry and Morality. London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.

Campbell, Kate “W. E. Gladstone, W. T. Stead, Matthew Arnold and a New Journalism: Cultural Politics in the 1880s” Victorian Periodicals Review Volume 36, Issue 1 (2003): 20-40.

Connell, W.F. The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950.

Davis, William V. “ 'The Tide's Pendulum Truth': A Reading of the Poetry of Theological Crisis from Matthew Arnold to R. S. Thomas” Christianity and Literature Volume 55, Issue 3 (2006): 369-91[Available online through EBSCOhost]

Eliot, T.S. "Matthew Arnold" The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Ed. Eliot, T.S. London: Faber & Faber, 1933. pp. 103-120.

Faverty, Frederic Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1951.

Gooder, Jean. “Matthew Arnold and the Idea of the Modern” Cambridge Quarterly Volume 24, Issue 1 (1995): 1-16 [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Goodheart, Eugene. “Arnold, critic of ideology” New Literary History Volume 25, Issue 2 (1994): 415-28 [Available online through JSTOR]

Goslee, David. “Arnold and the Hero-Worship of Jesus” Religion and Literature Volume 28, Issue 1 (1996): 21-48.

Gottfried, Leon. Matthew Arnold, and the Romantics. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.

Jasper, David. “The Death and Rebirth of Religious Language” Religion and Literature Volume 28, Issue 1 (1996): 5-19.

Johnson, E.D.H. The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1952.

Lustig, T.J. “James, Arnold 'Culture,' and 'Modernity'; or, A Tale of Two Dachschunds” Cambridge Quarterly Volume 37, Issue 1 (2008): 164-193 [Available online through Project Muse]

Madden, W.A. Matthew Arnold: A Study of the Aesthetic Temperament in Victorian England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.

O'Neill, Michael. “'The Burden of Ourselves': Arnold as a Post-Romantic Poet” Yearbook of English Studies Volume 36, Issue 2 (2006): 109-24 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Phelan, Joe. “The Language of Criticism in Arnold's Religious Writings” Nineteenth Century Prose Volume 34, Issues 1-2 (2007): 191-209.

Prickett, Stephen. “Matthew Arnold and Ernest Renan” Franco-British Studies: Journal of the British Institute in Paris Volume 16, Issue 1 (1993): 1-11.

Reist, J.S. “Matthew Arnold: poetical and religious rite of passage” Modern Age Volume 36, Issue 1 (1993): 26-37 [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Robbins, William. The Ethical Idealism of Matthew Arnold. London & Toronto: Heinemann, 1959.

Roberts, Ruth. Arnold and God. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Rowse, A.L. Matthew Arnold: Poet and Prophet. London: Thames & Hudson, 1976. 

Ward, David A. “Transformed Religion: Matthew Arnold and the Refining of Dissent” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Volume 53, Issue 2 (2001): 97-117 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

White, P. “Ministers of Culture: Arnold, Huxley and Liberal Anglican Reform of Learning” History of Science Volume 43, Issue 2 (2005): 115-38 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

 
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