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.
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