Matthew Arnold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan E. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation.