Culture and Anarchy
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Culture and Anarchy is an 1869 collection of essays by Victorian critic Matthew Arnold that explores the role of culture in society and famously contrasts "sweetness and light" with social and political disorder.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Culture and Anarchy canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| advocatesFor | state intervention for social improvement ⓘ |
| author | Matthew Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralIdea |
culture as a force for social harmony
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culture as a pursuit of human perfection ⓘ culture as the study of perfection ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
political disorder
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social disorder ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
laissez-faire liberalism
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middle-class materialism ⓘ nonconformist Protestantism ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | periodical essays ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural criticism
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non-fiction ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasFamousPhrase | sweetness and light ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“Barbarians, Philistines, Populace” essay
NERFINISHED
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“Doing as One Likes” essay NERFINISHED ⓘ “Hebraism and Hellenism” essay NERFINISHED ⓘ “Sweetness and Light” essay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on culture and the state
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modern cultural criticism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of Victorian society
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individualism versus social order ⓘ relationship between culture and politics ⓘ role of culture in society ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Barbarians
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Hebraism and Hellenism ⓘ Philistines NERFINISHED ⓘ Populace ⓘ sweetness and light ⓘ |
| philosophicalOrientation | liberal humanism ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
authority and freedom
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ethics of culture ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1869 ⓘ |
| publisher | Smith, Elder & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Victorian England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | series of essays ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
English society
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class structure ⓘ education ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | 19th-century Britain ⓘ |
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