A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

A people's history of classics class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

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 17th to the early 20th century....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hall, Edith, 1959- author (author), Stead, Henry, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York, New York : Routledge 2020.
2020.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching > Great Britain > History.
Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching > Ireland > History.
Working class > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Working class > Ireland > Intellectual life.
Great Britain > Civilization > Greek influences.
Great Britain > Civilization > Roman influences.
Ireland > Civilization > Greek influences.
Ireland > Civilization > Roman influences.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Ireland > Intellectual life.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009740865106719
Table of Contents:
  • Motives and methods
  • The invention of classics
  • Working-class readers
  • 18th-century working-class poets
  • Classics and class in life-writing
  • Working-class classics via the visual environment
  • Staging class struggle classically
  • Dissenting classics
  • Workers' educational classics
  • Classics & class in Ireland
  • Scottish working classes
  • Caractacus and Lloyd-George's recruiting drive in Wales
  • Seditious classicists
  • Underdog professors
  • Ragged-trousered philologists
  • Hinterland Greek
  • Classical underworlds
  • Class and the classical body
  • Gods and heroes of the proletariat
  • Shoemakers
  • Pottery workers
  • Miners
  • Socialist and communist scholars
  • Soldiers : Dai and Diomedes on the Somme
  • Theatre practitioners.

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