@inbook{07981a2f3089433c9073d6ad425d128b,
title = "Matthew Arnold: the discourse of criticism",
abstract = "In the history of criticism Matthew Arnold stands as a central and substantial figure, responsible for the establishing of the discipline of {\textquoteleft}English,{\textquoteright} the transformation of which is a contemporary literary theory{\textquoteright}s acknowledged mission. Prior to this identification of Arnold as a mater-strategist in the formation of a hegemonic cultural discourse, his critical work has been acknowledged and celebrated as a seminal influence by another architect of modern criticism, F.R. Leavis. Leavis{\textquoteright} key statement, published in 1938, took the form of a polemical response to T.S. Eliot{\textquoteright}s evaluation of Arnold as a precursor of 1890s Aestheticism. The changing fortunes of Matthew Arnold{\textquoteright}s reputation, visibly mutating as it passes through the hands of so many key figures in {\textquoteleft}the British Critical Tradition,{\textquoteright} clearly deserves a more sustained examination.",
author = "G. Holderness",
note = "Copyright Palgrave Macmillian [Full text of this chapter is not available in the UHRA]",
year = "1992",
language = "English",
isbn = "0333532767",
series = "Insights Series",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "29--37",
editor = "Gary Day",
booktitle = "In: The British Critical Tradition",
}