Oxford classics : teaching and learning, 1800-2000 / edited by Christopher Stray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stray, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Oxford--History.

University of Oxford.

Classical education--History.

Classical education.

Classical philology--Study and teaching--England--Oxford--History--19th century.

Classical philology.

Classical philology--Study and teaching--England--Oxford--History--20th century.

Classical philology--Study and teaching.

History.

Oxford (England)--Intellectual life.

Oxford (England).

England--Oxford.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2007.

Summary:

This important collection of essays both contributes, to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus.

Remaking the Classics also goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters.

Contents:

1 Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge / Christopher Stray 1

2 'A fleet of...inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920 / Isobel Hurst 14

3 Jude the Obscure; Oxford's classical outcasts / Edmund Richardson 28

4 Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford / Heather Ellis 46

5 Walter Pater's teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism / Stefano Evangelista 64

6 Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879 / Christopher Collard 78

7 Conington's 'Roman Homer' / Anne Rogerson 94

8 Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford / Stephen Harrison 107

9 'Liddell and Scott': precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions / August A. Imholtz, Jr. 117

10 Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism / Richard Hingley 135

11 What you didn't read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts / Graham Whitaker 154

12 Alfred Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth revisited / Paul Millett 168

13 Eduard Fraenkel recalled / Stephanie West 203

14 The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988 / Robin Nisbet, Donald Russell 219

15 Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing circumstances / James Morwood 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.

ISBN:

0715636456

9780715636459

OCLC:

156891010