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 Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the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.
Edition 1st EditionFirst Published 2020eBook Published 17 March 2020Pub. Location LondonImprint RoutledgePages 670eBook ISBN 9781315446608
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|160 pages
Canons, media and genres
chapter 1|18 pages
Motives and methods
Size: 2.04 MBchapter 2|24 pages
The invention of Classics and the emergence of class
Size: 6.50 MBchapter 3|28 pages
Working-class readers
Size: 7.90 MBchapter 4|24 pages
18th-century working-class poets
Size: 7.28 MBchapter 5|23 pages
Classics and class in life-writing
Size: 4.47 MBchapter 6|25 pages
Working-class Classics via the visual environment
Size: 6.65 MBchapter 7|16 pages
Staging class struggle classically
Size: 1.49 MBpart II|108 pages
Communities
chapter 8|23 pages
Dissenting Classics
Size: 5.75 MBchapter 9|21 pages
Adult education
Size: 4.72 MBchapter 10|27 pages
Classics and class in Ireland
Size: 6.80 MBchapter 11|20 pages
Scottish working Classics
Size: 6.29 MBchapter 12|15 pages
Caractacus and Lloyd George's recruiting drive in Wales
Size: 3.88 MBpart III|114 pages
Underdogs, underclasses, underworlds
chapter 13|22 pages
Seditious classicists
Size: 5.16 MBchapter 14|15 pages
Underdog professors
Size: 3.21 MBchapter 15|16 pages
Ragged-trousered philologists
Size: 5.44 MBchapter 16|17 pages
Hinterland Greek
Size: 4.94 MBchapter 17|20 pages
Classical underworlds
Size: 8.60 MBchapter 18|22 pages
Class and the classical body
Size: 7.28 MBpart IV|155 pages
Working identities
chapter 19|35 pages
Gods and heroes of the proletariat
Size: 17.38 MBchapter 20|20 pages
Shoemaker Classics
Size: 9.77 MBchapter 21|20 pages
Pottery workers
Size: 1.46 MBchapter 22|16 pages
Classics amongst the miners
Size: 3.41 MBchapter 23|20 pages
Socialist and communist scholars
Size: 2.59 MBSize: 1.95 MBchapter 25|19 pages
Theatre practitioners
Size: 1.57 MBchapter 26|5 pages
Afterword
Size: 0.07 MB
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