Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform 9781472584267

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Автор: Henry Stead, Edith Hall
Название: Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform
ISBN: 9781472584267
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

ISBN-10: 1472584260
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.70 кг.
Дата издания: 18.06.2015
Серия: Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 164 x 241 x 26
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Classical history / classical civilisation,20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000,Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain,HISTORY / Social History,LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Основная тема: Classical history / classical civilisation,LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical,HISTORY / Social History,HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain,Social & cultural history,20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Подзаголовок: From samuel taylor coleridge to harold wilson`s cabinet
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 and inherently reactionary, were consistently inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic elite.

The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the Cockney Classicist poets including Keats, and Dickens), different cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art, poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion, womens rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations and workers education), as well as political affiliations and agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party).

The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the history of British Classics some of the subjects ideological complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is badly needed in the current debates over the future of the discipline. Contributors include specialists in English Literature, History, Classics and Art.

Дополнительное описание: 1. Introduction, Henry Stead (King’s College London, UK) and Edith Hall (King's College London, UK) 2. Radicalism and Gradualism Enmeshed: Classics from the Grass-roots in the Cultural Politics of 19th-century Britain, Lorna Hardwick (Open University, UK

Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform, Henry Stead, Edith Hall