British Classics Outside England : The Academy and Beyond
by Hallett, Judith P.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-12-15
Publisher(s): Baylor Univ Pr
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Summary
The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classicsathe study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languagesabeyond 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 athe Oxbridge waya was to cloak oneself in the mantle of a gentlemanaeven when the agentlemana was a woman.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| British Classics Outside England: Scotland, Wales, and the Empire | |
| The Democratic Intellect Preserved: Scotland and the Classics 1826-1836 | p. 13 |
| Classics and Welsh Cultural Identity in the Nineteenth Century | p. 35 |
| Kathleen Freeman: An Apostle and Evangelist for Classical Greece | p. 49 |
| Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service | p. 61 |
| The Impact of British Classics in the United States | |
| Politics and Scholarship: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and Nineteenth-Century British Classics | p. 97 |
| Grace Harriet Macurdy: The Role of British Classics in the Self-Fashioning of an American Woman Scholar | p. 111 |
| J. A. K. Thomson and Classical Reception Studies: American Influences and "Classical Influences" | p. 129 |
| "The Anglicizing Way": Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) and the Twentieth-Century Transformation of Classics in the U.S.A. | p. 149 |
| Notes | p. 167 |
| Bibliography | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 223 |
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