A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 /: class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edith Hall, Henry Stead.
• Authors: Hall, Edith, 1959-; Stead, Henry
• Contents: Preface Part I: Canons, Media & Genres 1. Motives and Methods 2. The Invention of Classics 3. Working-Class Readers 4. 18th -Century Working-Class Poets 5. Classics and Class in Life-Writing 6. Working-Class Classics via the Visual Environment 7. Staging Class Struggle Classically Part II: Communities 8. Dissenting Classics 9. Workers’ Educational Classics 10. Classics & Class in Ireland 11. Scottish Working Classes 12. Caractacus and Lloyd-George’s Recruiting Drive in Wales Part III: Underdogs, Underclasses, Underworlds 13. Seditious Classicists 14. Underdog Professors 15. Ragged-Trousered Philologists 16. Hinterland Greek 17. Classical Underworlds 18. Class and the Classical Body Part IV: Working Identities 19. Gods and Heroes of the Proletariat 20. Shoemakers 21. Pottery Workers 22. Miners 23. Socialist and Communist Scholars 24. Soldiers: Dai and Diomedes on the Somme 25. Theatre Practitioners Afterword
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 370.941; Education -- Great Britain -- History; Working class -- Education -- Great Britain -- History; Classical education -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315446585; 9781315446592; 9781315446578; 9781315446608
• Related ISBNs: 9781138212831; 9780367432362
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