Classics in Britain : scholarship, education, and publishing 1800-2000

Classics in Britain : scholarship, education, and publishing 1800-2000 / Christopher Stray ; with an introduction by Constanze Güthenke.

This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work. Topics range from the school classroom to the politics of universities, and from the...

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Main Author: Stray, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Classical philology > Study and teaching > Great Britain > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Scholarship and Institutions: 1. Purity in danger: the contextual life of savants ; 2. Curriculum and style in the collegiate university: classics in nineteenth-century Oxbridge ; 3. Thomas Gaisford: legion, legend, lexicographer ; 4. Rise and fall of porsoniasm ; 5. Renegotiating classics: the politics of curricular reform in late Victorian Cambridge
  • Part II. Scholarship and Publishing: 6. Politics, culture, and scholarship: classics in the Quarterly Review 1809-24 ; 7. From one museum to another: the Museum Criticum (1813-26) and the Philological Museum (1831-3) ; 8. The Classical Review and its precursors ; 9. Sir William Smith and his dictionaries: a study in scarlet and black ; 10. Jebb's Sophocles: an edition and its maker ; 11. Promoting and defending: reflections on the history of the Hellenic society (1879) and the classical association (1903) ; 12. Scholars, gentlemen, and schoolboys: the authority of Latin in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England
  • Part III. Schools and Schoolbooks: 13. Paper wraps stone: the beginnings of educational lithography ; 14. John Taylor and ̀Locke's classical system' ; 15. Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school ; 16. Edward Adolf Sonnenschein and the politics of linguistic authority in England, 1880-1930 ; 17. Primers, publishing, and politics: the classical textbooks of Benjamin Hall Kennedy ; 18. Smell of Latin grammar: contrary imaginings in English classrooms.

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