A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939...
A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939...
A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 / Edith Hall and Henry Stead.
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Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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G 2021/0198
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English
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Physical content
xviii 642 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 -- Cl...
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Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"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 earlier 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and...
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A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 / Edith Hall and Henry Stead.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-603) and index.
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ebook version : 9781315446585
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©2020
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G 2021/0198
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74VKaOBkQXMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOBkQXMl
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ISBN
1138212830
9781138212831
DDC
938.0071041
MMS ID
991024381112602626
