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British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond

- 230 Pages
Published: 30/11/2011

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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 specialized 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.