...education ("cultivation," or Bildung) built into the genre of the novel. 19 However, whereas Arnold sought to recommend "culture" as "the great help out of our present difficulties," 2 0 Collins's novels typically elaborate the various practices of "cultivation" as the great gamble...

...fully developed in his essay Culture and Anarchy. In his essay, he explains in the preface, he proposes to recommend culture as the great help out of our...total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this...

...mehr ist Matthew Arnold beteiligt. 4.1 Kultur als Wertbegriff, Kultur als Beschreibungsbegriff [...] culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by...of getting to know, on all the matters which most concem us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning...

...this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords' (70). Instead, culture is the 'pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world' (6). More specifically,...

...those works can facilitate. After all, Arnold's famous definition in its fuller context reads, "The pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world," and, importantly,...

...general, but to the object of aesthetic enjoyment, the intellectual and spiritual life of the individual: 'a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know ... the best which has been said and thought in the world' (see Culture and Anarchy, Murray: London,...

...moving away from a tightly bounded evangelical religion, Matthew Arnold's definition of culture as "a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know . . . the best which has been thought and said in the world" offered values, certainties, and possibilities...

...theorist of liberal education, Arnold, writing more generally in 1869, was to 'recommend culture ... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters that concern us, the best of which has been thought and said in the world' as a focus for life...

...crucial ways within the field of English studies as well. Arnold, for instance, writes of culture as 'a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know... the best which has been thought and said in the world', a conception suggestive of culture as the sphere...

...defines culture as a process of distillation and education. Being cultured, he stipulates, amounts to a "pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters that most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world."1 As an investigator of...