Rediscovering Hellenism : the Hellenic inheritance and the English imagination
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Rediscovering Hellenism : the Hellenic inheritance and the English imagination
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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The ten essays in this book are concerned with the cultural manifestatons of English Philhellenism in the late 18th and 19th centuries and its effect on Victorian society. The themes are explored in the arts and parallels with contemporary German classicism are discussed.
Table of Contents
- The question of authenticity in some early accounts of Greece, David Constantine
- "high pindaricks upon stilts" - a case-study in the 18th-century classical tradition, Penelope Wilson
- the arcadian vision - neo-classicism and the picturesque, J.Mordaunt Crook
- why the Greeks and not the Romans in Victorian Britain?, Frank M.Turner
- Hellenism in Victorian painting, Richard Jenkyns
- the fortunes of Sappho - 1770-1850, Peter Tomory
- Hebrew versus Hellene as a principle of literary criticism, Stephen Prickett
- education, ideology and the ruling class - Hellenism and English public Schools in the 19th century, James Bowen
- cast-collecting in the 19th century - scholarship, aesthetics, connoisseurship, Peter Connor
- Socrates or chorus person? the problem of individuality in Nietzsche's Hellenism, Anthony Stephens.
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