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A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the
classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices
have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of
classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the
late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the
prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link
between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and
the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages
meant that working-class culture was a 'Classics-Free Zone'. Making
use of diverse sources of information, both published and
unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United
Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class
experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to
the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data,
from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range
of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union
collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in
regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of
the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what
these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the
promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the
elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of
Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the
many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working
classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for
classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social,
intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it
brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates
around the future of classical education, and should be read by
anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform
presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance
of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal
development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th
and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the
lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational
artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers,
revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far
from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the
upper classes and inherently reactionary, were consistently
inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly
on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic
elite. The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected
and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the
'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different
cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art,
poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the
desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion,
women's rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations
and workers' education), as well as political affiliations and
agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties
including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the
Labour Party). The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the
history of British Classics some of the subject's ideological
complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is
badly needed in the current debates over the future of the
discipline. Contributors include specialists in English Literature,
History, Classics and Art.
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the
classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices
have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of
classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the
late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the
prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link
between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and
the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages
meant that working-class culture was a 'Classics-Free Zone'. Making
use of diverse sources of information, both published and
unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United
Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class
experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to
the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data,
from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range
of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union
collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in
regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of
the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what
these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the
promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the
elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of
Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the
many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working
classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for
classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social,
intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it
brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates
around the future of classical education, and should be read by
anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally
expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural
scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially,
politically, and culturally explosive epoch, with its mania for all
things Greek, that Catullus' work was first fully translated into
English and played a key role in the countercultural and
commercially driven classicism of the time. Previously marginalized
on the traditional eighteenth-century curriculum as a charming but
debauched minor love poet, Catullus was discovered as a major
poetic voice in the late Georgian era by reformist
emulators-especially in the so-called Cockney School-and won
widespread respect. In this volume, Henry Stead pioneers a new way
of understanding the key role Catullus played in shaping
Romanticism by examining major literary engagements with Catullus,
from John Nott of Bristol's pioneering book-length bilingual
edition (1795), to George Lamb's polished verse translation (1821).
He identifies the influence of Catullus' poetry in the work of
numerous Romantic-era literary and political figures, including
Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Canning, Brougham, and
Gifford, demonstrating the degree of its cultural penetration.
Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform
presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance
of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal
development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th
and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the
lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational
artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers,
revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far
from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the
upper classes and inherently reactionary, were consistently
inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly
on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic
elite. The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected
and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the
'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different
cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art,
poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the
desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion,
women's rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations
and workers' education), as well as political affiliations and
agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties
including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the
Labour Party). The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the
history of British Classics some of the subject's ideological
complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is
badly needed in the current debates over the future of the
discipline. Contributors include specialists in English Literature,
History, Classics and Art.
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