Word: arnoldian
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated the Arnoldian creed that "a work of literature ... has value as a criticism of life...
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