A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

ISBN-13: 9780367432362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 642 str.

Edith Hall; Henry Stead

Opis

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17^th to the earlier 20^th century.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Motives and Methods  2. The Invention of Classics  3. Working-Class Readers  4. 18^th-Century Working-Class Poets  5. Classics and Class in Life-Writing  6. Working-Class Classics via the Visual Environment  7. Staging Class Struggle Classically  8. Dissenting Classics  9. Workers’ Educational Classics  10. Classics & Class in Ireland  11. Scottish Working Classes  12. Caractacus and Lloyd-George’s Recruiting Drive in Wales  13. Seditious Classicists  14. Underdog Professors  15. Ragged-Trousered Philologists  16. Hinterland Greek  17. Classical Underworlds  18. Class and the Classical Body  19. Gods and Heroes of the Proletariat  20. Shoemakers  21. Pottery Workers  22. Miners  23. Socialist and Communist Scholars  24. Soldiers: Dai and Diomedes on the Somme  25. Theatre Practitioners