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Author Hall, Edith, 1959- author.

Title A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 / Edith Hall and Henry Stead.

Publication Info. London ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (629 pages)
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History.
Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Ireland -- History.
Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Working class -- Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Roman influences.
Ireland -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
Ireland -- Civilization -- Roman influences.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stead, Henry, author.
Other Form: Print version: Hall, Edith, 1959- People's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939. London ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2020 629 pages 9781138212831 (DLC) 2019047486
ISBN 9781138212831
9781315446585 (e-book)

 
    
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