ENGLISH 3VC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bathos, Raymond Williams, Muscular Christianity
7 Feb 2018
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Lecture three to infamy was his strict discipline in boys only schools-> this was physical discipline. Widely considered as a cultural critic and public intellectual. In the wider notion of culture he brought into being more contemporary ideas. Son of doctor thomas arnold educative innovator, headmaster at rugby, claim as it would create (cid:498)better and more disciplined citizens(cid:499) (cid:498)muscular christianity(cid:499) His poetry is disillusioned and melancholic what has been lost or will be. His prose, given to idealism he argues for the idea of perfectibility his writings shown thrown him trying to figure out an alternative to the way society runs what goodness is and what a good life is. He has a deep concern for the nation as well as globalization. Arnold shows a deep anxiety as to what society prizes and what it fails to foster in. The good has become to mean a physical and material striving and the protection and extension of individual rights.
