Greek and Roman classics in the British struggle for social reform /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stead, Henry (Editor ), Hall, Edith, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Temas:
1800-1899
Classical literature > Appreciation > Great Britain.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Social & cultural history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Classical literature > Appreciation
Social conditions
England > Social conditions > 19th century.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
England
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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