Thomas Arnold

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Biographical Material

• A Thomas Arnold Chronology
• Thomas Arnold's Romantic and Ruskinian Love of Nature
• Thomas Arnold in His Study
• Thomas Arnold's Account of the Evolution of His Political Beliefs
• Works
• The Arnold Family Grave
• Portrait of Arnold by Thomas Philips
• Portrait of Arnold by George Richmond

Religious themes and contexts: Broadchurch or Liberal Anglicanism

• Thomas Arnold, Christian Believer — His Conceptions of Christianity and the Church
• Thomas Arnold on Religion and Reform
• The Broad Church Party in the Church of England
• Dr. Arnold and the Meaning of Anglican Liberalism
• Thomas Arnold's Attitude toward the Protestant Reformation

Arnold and Religious Controversy

• Thomas Arnold on Priestcraft, Idolatry, and the Newmanites
• Arnold on Catholic Emancipation

Sermons

• "Judgments and Chastisements," 1832 (discussion)
• "School is the world to you" — Thomas Arnold on fallen human nature at Rugby

Arnold, Science, and Religion

• "The new and fatal disease" — Thomas Arnold on the 1832 Cholera and Divine Judgment
• Thomas Arnold on Freedom of Inquiry and Changing Attitudes toward the Relation of Science and the Bible

Arnold and Literature, Religious and Secular

• Thomas Arnold on Religious Writers: Keble plus Bunyan, Milton, and Seventeenth-century Writers on Religion
• Arnold's use of biblical allusion in a letter about the "troubles of school-keeping"
• Broad Church or Liberal Christianity in Tom Brown's Schooldays
• Thomas Arnold's Headmastership as Metaphor for Divine Rule in Tom Brown's Schooldays

General

• Religion in Victoran England
• "Against the Jew Bill"

Arnold and political and social history

• Sitemap
• Thomas Arnold's Fundamentally Christian Conception of Politics
• Thomas Arnold's Account of the Evolution of His Political Beliefs
• Thomas Arnold on the Relevance of Roman History to Political Reform and Democracy
• The Limits of Thomas Arnold's Liberalism
• "The greatest source of evil throughout the world" — Arnold's Dislike and Distrust of the Aristocracy

Particular Political Issues

• Thomas Arnold and the Anti-Slavery Movement
• Thomas Arnold's Attitude toward the Protestant Reformation, the Poor, and Revolution
• "Conservatism . . . destroys what it loves" — Thomas Arnold on Political Change
• Thomas Arnold's Views of the 1832 Reform Bill
• Arnold advocates Catholic Emancipation
• "Against the Jew Bill"
• Arnold's January 1840 Letter to Carlyle on a Society to Collect Information about Poverty in England

Literary Relations

• Sitemap
• Thomas Arnold on his own plain style
• Arnold and Keble's Christian Year
• Arnold and William Cobbett
• Arnold and Wordsworth
• "Such a union of the highest philosophy and poetry" — Thomas Arnold on S. T. Coleridge
• Arnold's delight in Demosthenes, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato
• Arnold's dislike of Tibullus and Propertius
• The Public School Experience in Victorian Literature
• Thomas Arnold as Carlylean leader in Tom Brown's Schooldays

Theme & Subject

• Thomas Arnold, Christian Believer — His Conceptions of Christianity and the Church
• Thomas Arnold's Fundamentally Christian Conception of Politics
• Thomas Arnold's Rugby Reforms
• Thomas Arnold on the "Troubles of school-keeping"
• Thomas Arnold's Theories of Secondary Education

Science and public health

• Thomas Arnold on Freedom of Inquiry and Changing Attitudes toward the Relation of Science and the Bible
• "The new and fatal disease" — Thomas Arnold on the 1832 Cholera
• Victorian Science

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