British classics outside England : the academy and beyond / Judith P. Hallett, Christopher Stray, editors.

Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.

Format/Description:

Book
vi, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.

Contents:

The democratic intellect preserved : Scotland and the classics 1826-1836 / Mick Morris
Classics and Welsh cultural identity in the nineteenth century / Ceri Davies
Kathleen Freeman : an apostle and evangelist for classical Greece / Eleanor Irwin
Greek, Latin and the Indian civil service / Phiroze Vasunia
Politics and scholarship : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and nineteenth-century British classics / Ward Briggs
Grace Harriet Macurdy : the role of British classics in the self-fashioning of an American woman scholar / Barbara F. McManus
J.A.K. Thomson and classical reception studies : American influences and 'classical influences' / Barbara F. McManus
The anglicizing way : Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) and the twentieth-century transformation of classics in the USA / Judith P. Hallett.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a conference held June 2005 in Hay-on-Wye.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-222) and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Contributor:

Hallett, Judith P., 1944-
Stray, Christopher.
Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9781602580121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
160258012X (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

219567452

Web link:

The Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund Home Page

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