A Note on Arnold Scholarship: Spring 1986 – Spring 1987

Abstract

Lengthy discussion of Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds (1986), a collection of essays edited by Robert Giddings, who paints an unsympathetic portrait of Arnold in the introduction. Also summarizes James Livingston’s Matthew Arnold and Christianity (1986), A. Dwight Culler’s The Victorian Mirror of History (1985), and the Oxford University volume Matthew Arnold, edited by Miriam Allott and R.H. Super. Annotated bibliography of two dozen articles, notes and dissertations, including individual articles in the Giddings volume.