Culture and Education in Victorian England

Bucknell Review

by Patrick Greig Scott

The critics in Culture and Education in Victorian England share Matthew Arnold's belief that culture and education are powerful instruments for transmitting values, but they do not always see that power as benign. They show how art, literature, the British Museum, and formal education could all be used to inculcate the values of the ruling classes.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Patrick Greig Scott is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, and joint editor of Studies in Scottish Literature. His publications include The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census (co-authored 2017), Robert Burns: A Documentary Volume (2018), a selection of Ross Roy's essays on Burns (co-edited 2018), and Robert Louis Stevenson: A Documentary Volume (2021). He and Rachel Mann recently completed an edition of poems by Helen Craik (1751 - 1825).