{"product_id":"priests-of-culture-james-f-gaines-9780820441818","title":"Priests of Culture: A Study of Matthew Arnold and Henry James","description":"\u003ci\u003ePriests of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an analysis of the thought of two cultural critics, Matthew Arnold and Henry James. Focusing on Arnold's cultural and religious criticism and James's travel literature, this study examines the efforts of both Arnold and James to find in an ideal of  culture  a supreme center of value around which to rally the forces of civilization in the wake of a nineteenth-century crisis of faith and unsettling social change. Arnold responds directly to that crisis in offering a doctrine of  culture  to serve as a bulwark for standards to replace an intellectually crippled Christianity. James appears to accept the absence of faith, but is even more appalled at the erosion of cultural standards in an America increasingly reduced to a  money-grabbing democracy . Sterner argues that their critiques remain compelling, but the curative, cultural visions of both founder in their attempts to make  culture  serve purposes normally, and properly, reserved to religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James F. Gaines,Douglas W. Sterner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820441813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820441818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James F. Gaines","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48587656003839,"sku":"9780820441818","price":70.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/priests-of-culture-james-f-gaines-9780820441818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}