Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"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
Table of Contents
- 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
