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Record Nr.

UNINA9910676673003321

Autore

Hall Edith <1959->

Titolo

A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 / / Edith Hall and Henry Stead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2020

ISBN

1-315-44660-X

1-315-44658-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (629 pages)

Disciplina

938.0071041

Soggetti

Civilization, Classical - Study and teaching - Great Britain - History

Civilization, Classical - Study and teaching - Ireland - History

Working class - Great Britain - Intellectual life

Working class - Ireland - Intellectual life

Great Britain Civilization Greek influences

Great Britain Civilization Roman influences

Ireland Civilization Greek influences

Ireland Civilization Roman influences

Great Britain Intellectual life

Ireland Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Motives and methods -- The invention of classics -- Working-class readers -- 18th-century working-class poets -- Classics and class in life-writing -- Working-class classics via the visual environment -- Staging class struggle classically -- Dissenting classics -- Workers' educational classics -- Classics & class in Ireland -- Scottish working classes -- Caractacus and Lloyd-George's recruiting drive in Wales -- Seditious classicists -- Underdog professors -- Ragged-trousered philologists -- Hinterland Greek -- Classical underworlds -- Class and the classical body -- Gods and heroes of the proletariat -- Shoemakers -- Pottery workers -- Miners -- Socialist and communist scholars -- Soldiers : Dai and Diomedes on the Somme -- Theatre practitioners.