Culture and Anarchy (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

This new edition of Matthew Arnold`s influential text is accompanied by four specially commissioned essays that analyze Arnold`s ideas from divergent political and literary perspectives and link them to contemporary concerns over the health of western culture in an increasingly multicultural society. The edition reprints for the first time in unaltered form the original 1869 text of Culture and Anarchy, providing valuable insight into Arnold`s authorial intent; it is supplemented by a useful glossary of names, term, and events and an introduction by Lipman that places Arnold in his time and discusses his initial reception and continuing importance today.