Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960
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This is the first book to give a general account of the transformation of classics in English schools and universities from being the amateur knowledge of the Victorian gentleman to that of the professional scholar, or from an elite social marker to a marginalized academic subject. The
challenges to the authority of classics in 19th-century England are analyzed, as are the many and various ideological responses of its practitioners. The impact of university reform on the content and organization of classical knowledge is described in detail, with special reference to Cambridge.
Chapters are devoted to the effects of state intervention, social snobbery, and democracy on the provision of classics in schools, and the dissensions within the bodies set up to defend it. The narrative runs clear up to the present, fully covering along the way the abolition of Compulsory Latin in
1960 and the absence of classics from the National Curriculum in 1988.
challenges to the authority of classics in 19th-century England are analyzed, as are the many and various ideological responses of its practitioners. The impact of university reform on the content and organization of classical knowledge is described in detail, with special reference to Cambridge.
Chapters are devoted to the effects of state intervention, social snobbery, and democracy on the provision of classics in schools, and the dissensions within the bodies set up to defend it. The narrative runs clear up to the present, fully covering along the way the abolition of Compulsory Latin in
1960 and the absence of classics from the National Curriculum in 1988.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:019815013X
ISBN13:9780198150138
Release Date:May 1998
Publisher:Clarendon Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 8.6"
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