British classics outside England : the academy and beyond
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British classics outside England : the academy and beyond
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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