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Author Richardson, Edmund, 1982-

Title Classical Victorians : scholars, scoundrels and generals in pursuit of antiquity / Edmund Richardson.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Classics after antiquity
Classics after antiquity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso forger who fooled the greatest scholars of the age. It is a history of hope: a general who longed to be an Homeric hero, a bankrupt poet who longed to start a revolution. Victorian classicism was defined by hope - but shaped by uncertainty. Packed with forgotten characters and texts, with the roar of the burlesque-stage and the mud of the battlefield, this book offers a rich insight into nineteenth-century culture and society. It explores just how difficult it is to stake a claim on the past"-- Provided by publisher.
"Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso forger who fooled the greatest scholars of the age. It is a history of hope: a general who longed to be an Homeric hero, a bankrupt poet who longed to start a revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: the resurrection men; Chapter 2 Old-fashioned ambition (a Victorian seduction); The silver key; The bishop's palace; The hungry professor; The Stockwell murderer; A most respectable pursuit; Jude's credo; Chapter 3 In search of an empire of memory; Haunted ground; The use of the dead to the living; Becoming Greek; The volunteers; The return; Without a strain; The heroes of Troy; The revolutionary; Tilting at windmills; Coming home; Chapter 4 The children of Babel; The subject of this memoir.
The edges of scholarshipThe curious Mr Simonides; Are you laughing now?; The voice from the wilderness; The life of the scholar; The cultivation of chaos; The unbroken line; Forget-me-not; Appendix A Anglican bishops in office in 1800 and 1865; 1800: bishops born into the elite; 1865: bishops born into the elite; 1800: bishops who advanced through patronage; 1865: bishops who advanced through patronage; 1800: bishop who gained advancement from theological writings; 1865: bishops who gained advancement from theological writings; 1800: bishop who gained advancement from classical learning.
1865: bishops who gained advancement from classical learningAppendix B Students awarded Exhibitions at Balliol College, Oxford between 1870 and 1879; Social stability: Exhibitioners born into -- and with careers within -- the elite, or the higher professional classes; Downward mobility: Exhbitioner born into the elite or the higher professional classes, but with middle-class careers; Social stability: Exhibitioners born into less distinguished backgrounds, with middle-class careers; Upward mobility: Exhibitioners born into less distinguished backgrounds, with distinguished academic careers.
Upward mobility:Exhibitioners born to less distinguished backgrounds, with careers which took them into the elite, or the higher professional classesAppendix C Anglican archdeacons in office in 1840; 1840: archdeacons born into high-ranking church families: social stability; 1840: archdeacons born into the elite, or the higher professional classes: social stability; 1840: archdeacons who engineered themselves into the elite: Upward mobility; 1840: archdeacons who advanced through their theological writings: upward mobility.
1840: archdeacons who advanced through non-theological academic work: upward mobilityBibliography; Index.
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Subject Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Great Britain.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Classicism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Classicism.
History.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
Civilization.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Roman influences.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Richardson, Edmund, 1982- Classical Victorians. Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107026773 (DLC) 2012023179 (OCoLC)795687201
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