Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform

·
· Bloomsbury Publishing
Электрондық кітап
320
бет

Осы электрондық кітап туралы ақпарат

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The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the 'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different cultural media (burlesque theatre,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, women's 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 subject's 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.

Авторы туралы

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics, King's College London, UK, and Consultant Director of the APGRD in Oxford, UK. She has published more than twenty books on ancient Greek culture and its reception including Inventing the Barbarian (1989), The Theatrical Cast of Athens (2006), The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy (2010), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (2013) and Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2014).

Henry Stead is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London, UK, and author of A Cockney Catullus (forthcoming).

Осы электрондық кітапты бағалаңыз.

Пікіріңізбен бөлісіңіз.

Ақпаратты оқу

Смартфондар мен планшеттер
Android және iPad/iPhone үшін Google Play Books қолданбасын орнатыңыз. Ол аккаунтпен автоматты түрде синхрондалады және қайда болсаңыз да, онлайн не офлайн режимде оқуға мүмкіндік береді.
Ноутбуктар мен компьютерлер
Google Play дүкенінде сатып алған аудиокітаптарды компьютердің браузерінде тыңдауыңызға болады.
eReader және басқа құрылғылар
Kobo eReader сияқты E-ink технологиясымен жұмыс істейтін құрылғылардан оқу үшін файлды жүктеп, оны құрылғыға жіберу керек. Қолдау көрсетілетін eReader құрылғысына файл жіберу үшін Анықтама орталығының нұсқауларын орындаңыз.