Black Tom - Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man - Couverture rigide

Copley, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826457231 ISBN 13 : 9780826457233

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

Synopsis

Book by Copley Terence

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Professor Terence CopleyÆs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldÆs 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 BritainÆs upper-class. Arnold was the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School and HughesÆs Tom BrownÆs Schooldays (1857) fixed him in the public imagination.Copley assesses both the uncritical Victorian versions of ArnoldÆs life--including Hughes and Dean StanleyÆs 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Terence Copley is the Professor of Education in the University of Exeter'

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826457231
• ISBN 13: 9780826457233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 319