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

1. Verfasser: Hall, Edith, 1959- , [VerfasserIn]
Stead, Henry, , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2020.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (629 pages)
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Großbritannien
Parallelausgabe: Hall, Edith, 1959-, People's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939. (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781138212831
Online Zugang: Available online for registrated users of FID
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.