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CLASSICS TRANSFORMED
SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND, 1830-1960 |
| By: |
Christopher Stray |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£202.50 |
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£202.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019815013X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198150138 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 March, 1998 |
| Pages: |
350 |
| Description: |
The first book to give a general account of the transformation of classics in English schools and universities from being the amateur knowledge of the Victorian gentleman to that of the professional scholar, from an elite social marker to a marginalized academic subject. |
| Synopsis: |
The first book to give a general account of the transformation of classics in English schools and universities from being the amateur knowledge of the Victorian gentleman to that of the professional scholar, from an elite social marker to a marginalized academic subject. The challenges to the authority of classics in 19th-century England are analysed, as is the wide range of ideological responses by its practitioners. The impact of university reform on the content and organization of classical knowledge is described in detail, with special reference to Cambridge. Chapters are devoted to the effects of state intervention, social snobbery and democracy on the provision of classics in schools, and the dissensions within the bodies set up to defend it. The narrative is carried through to the abolition of Compulsory Latin in 1960 and the absence of classics from the National Curriculum in 1988. |
| Illustrations: |
frontispiece, halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Runciman Award 1999, Joint Second Prize Winner. |
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