British classics outside England : the academy and beyond

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British classics outside England : the academy and beyond

Judith P. Hallett, Christopher Stray, editors

Baylor University Press, c2009

  • : hbk. : alk. paper

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Based on papers presented at a conference held June 2005 in Hay-on-Wye

Includes bibliographical references and index

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The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages--beyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialized scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation. Not only did British classics permeate England; they brought English values to Scotland, Wales, and America as well. Far into the twentieth century, to learn classics ""the Oxbridge way"" was to cloak oneself in the mantle of a gentleman--even when the ""gentleman"" was a woman.

Table of Contents

Introduction Judith P. Hallett and Christopher Stray I British Classics beyond England: Scotland, Wales and the Empire 1 The Democratic Intellect Preserved: Scotland and the Classics 1826-1836 Mick Morris 2 Classics and Welsh Cultural Identity in the Nineteenth Century Ceri Davies 3 Kathleen Freeman: An Apostle and Evangelist for Classical Greece Eleanor Irwin 4 Greek, Latin and the Indian Civil Service Phiroze Vasunia II The impact of British classics in the United States 5 Politics and Scholarship: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and Nineteenth-Century British Classics Ward Briggs 6 Grace Harriet Macurdy: The Role of British Classics in the Self-Fashioning of an American Woman Scholar Barbara F. McManus 7 J. A. K. Thomson and Classical Reception Studies: American Influences and 'Classical Influences' Barbara F. McManus 8 The Anglicizing Way: Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) and the Twentieth-Century Transformation of Classics in the USA Judith P. Hallett Notes Bibliography Index

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