Professor Terence CopleyAEs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldAEs influence as an educator, a theologian and a churchman. Arnold was only a Victorian for five years (he died in 1842) but he has been remembered as a major figure of the age, not least because Lytton Strachey chose him as one of his objects of ridicule and pillory in Eminent Victorians (1918).He stands as a monument to the development of the 19th-century public school system whose influence spread far beyond BritainAEs upper-class. Arnold was the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School and HughesAEs Tom BrownAEs Schooldays (1857) fixed him in the public imagination.Copley assesses both the uncritical Victorian versions of ArnoldAEs life--including Hughes and Dean StanleyAEs original Life--and the sneering assessment of his influence, perpetuated by Strachey, to provide the first rounded portrait of Arnold. In conclusion Copley explores the possible legacy that this great but neglected figure has left to our age.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9780826467058
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94397596
Product Key Features
Author
Terence Copley
Publication Name
Black Tom: Arnold of Rugby: the Myth and the Man
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Education
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
470g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Terence Copley
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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