ENGL 44588 - Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

In the mid-19th century, Matthew Arnold produced a seminal work that changed the way people thought and talked about the concept of culture. Culture and Anarchy, ever since its publication, has dominated the academic and critical community that Arnold in fact hoped to establish as his cultural clerisy. In the late Victorian era, Oscar Wilde began to speak about a culture that had essentially never been without Arnold's views. Though he broke away from Arnold's perspective, his work has inherent ties to the Arnold's influential writings. This course looks at all aspects of these two writers' careers: the poetry, the critical prose writing, and the fiction. With an eye on the indelible specter of Romanticism, these works will be put into their timely and modern context. The course will seek to discover whether these two cultural critics mean as much in our time as they did in their own.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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