use of diffident persona to indicate modesty.

multiple and repeated appositions, authoritative statements 473.

What are some individual features of Arnold's style, and how does it differ from that of Carlyle and Ruskin? Can you comment on the rhythm of his sentences?.

The debate over the suffrage had been vitriolic throughout the 1860s, and Arnold's essays were not surprisingly attacked (206)-Huxley accused him of inventing Bishop Wilson!- which may explain something of the pain of his response. Mill (he favored universal suffrage, but urged education to bring an enlightened democracy). For a comparison of other middle-class essayists' attitudes toward the extention of the vote, see Thomas Carlyle's 'Shooting Niagara' (he was virulently hostile) and J. He also supported the Coercion Bill and other measures which would have virtually reduced Ireland to martial law.Įach of the essays later gathered in Culture and Anarchy was published in Cornhill Magazine during 1868, directly after the passage of the Reform Bill, which granted the vote to prosperous working-class men. John Gross comments, 'I doubt whether Arnold would have heard many of the speakers at the Agricultural Hall blithely invoking the Tarpeian rock.' Later, on the Irish question of the 1880s, Arnold favored a state-supported Catholic university (of the kind advocated by Newman) but opposed Home Rule, 'the nadir of Liberalism,' as a first step to the breaking up of the Empire. In the second edition of 1875 he deleted the passage. Arnold witnessed the Hyde Park demonstrations from his home in Chester Square, and wrote a famous passage alluding favorably to the flinging of the ring-leaders from the Tarpeian Rock (49).

In July 1866 Reform League demonstrators seeking the extension of the franchise had attempted to enter Hyde Park, but when turned back conducted a peaceful protest rally at the Agricultural Hall at Islington, with J. Though often presented as a paean to apolitical cultural values, Culture and Anarchy was motivated in part by Arnold's distaste for working-class agitation for the vote.

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