British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781602583337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 230 str.

Judith P. Hallett; Christopher Stray

Opis

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.

Spis treści

• 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