British Classics Outside England

作者:Hallett, Judith P. (EDT)/ Stray, Christopher (EDT)

页数:229

出版时间:2008-12

价格:$ 45.14

isbn号码:9781602580121

The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics -- the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages -- beyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialised scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation. Not only did British classics permeate England; they brought English values to Scotland, Wales, and America as well. Far into the twentieth century, to learn classics "the Oxbridge way" was to cloak oneself in the mantle of a gentleman -- even when the "gentleman" was a woman.