A Note on Arnold Scholarship: Spring 1987 – Spring 1988

Abstract

Brief analysis of important works: David Riede, Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language (1988); Perry Meisel, The Myth of the Modern (1988); and W. David Shaw, The Lucid Veil (1987). Also comments on the ongoing use and abuse of Arnold by poststructuralist critics such as William Spanos and J. Hillis Miller. Annotated bibliography of two dozen additional books, articles, and notes.