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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Bloomsbury studies in Classical reception
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Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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| Contents |
Radicalism and gradualism enmeshed: classics from the grass roots in the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Britain / Lorna Hardwick -- Coleridge's classicised politics: Heraclitus and the statesman's manual / Adam Roberts -- Swinish classics; or a conservative clash with cockney culture / Henry Stead -- The harmless impudence of a revolutionary: radical classics in 1850s London / Edmund Richardson -- Making it really new: Dickens versus the classics / Edith Hall -- Classics and social closure / Christopher Stray -- Hercules as a symbol of labour: a nineteenth-century class conflicted hero / Paula James -- Vulcan a "working-class" god? / Annie Ravenhill-Johnson -- Nature versus nurture: population decline and lessons from the ancient world / Sarah J. Butler -- The space of politics: classics, utopia, and the defence of order / Richard Alston -- Classically educated women in the early independent Labour Party / Edith Hall -- The Greeks of the WEA: realities and rhetorics in the first two decades / Barbara Goff -- Christopher Caudwell's Greek and Latin classics / Edith Hall -- Staging the Haitian revolution in London: Britain, the West Indies, and C.L.R. James's Toussaint Louverture / Justine McConnell -- Yesterday's men: labour's modernising lite from the 1960s to classical times / Michael Simpson. |
| Summary |
Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers, revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the upper classes a. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
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Classical literature -- Appreciation. |
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Great Britain. |
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England -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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England. |
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Social conditions. |
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19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Stead, Henry, editor.
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Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.
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Print version: Greek and Roman classics in the British struggle for social reform 9781472584267 (DLC) 2015007961 (OCoLC)886489343 |
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9781472584281 electronic book |
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1472584287 electronic book |
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9781472584267 |
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1472584260 |
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9781472584274 |
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1472584279 |
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