Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently. Favertys critique of Arnold draws particular attention to the lack of a specifically cultural (rather than racial) analysis of the type pioneered by his contemporary Edward Burnett Tylor.

Last modified

• 08/08/2018

Creator

• Frederic E. Faverty

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2GD9D

Subject

• Literary Criticism

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• England

Date created

• 1951

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0