ABSTRACT
Culture and Anarchy, looked at properly, has buried within it a contentious, not serene, culture, and if the text is taught from the perspective of basic composition pedagogy, which asks students to answer back, question, and undermine Arnold, they will discover this conflict. Further, students will find that in responding to Arnold and interrogating his text in this way, they are mirroring the strategy of the text and its manner of composition, and in the process, enacting the conflictual culture that Arnold envisioned.
