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British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond
Judith P Hallett
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Description for British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond
Paperback. Explores how the study of classics spread English values in the British Empire and beyond. Editor(s): Hallett, Judith P.; Stray, Chris. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: G; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602583337
SKU
V9781602583337
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Ref
99-1
About Judith P Hallett
Judith P. Hallett (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park. Other publications by Hallett include: Roman Sexualities (co-editor, 1997), Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1996), and Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family (1984). Christopher Stray (Ph.D. University of Wales) is ... Read more
Reviews for British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond
"British Classics Outside England contributes to a rich investigation of the intersecting histories of scholarship, politics, gender, and cultural identity."
Lorna Hardwick, Director, Reception of Classical Texts Research Project, The Open University
Lorna Hardwick, Director, Reception of Classical Texts Research Project, The Open University