[PDF] The Greek Heritage In Victorian Britain eBook

Author : Frank M. Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300032574

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An important new study that seeks to establish what Victorian writers said about Greek culture and how their interpretations both molded and reflected the attitudes and values of the Victorian age. "Turner's readable, intelligent, thorough, witty, and magisterial book discovers and narrates a fundamental strain in British intellectual life from the late eighteenth century until the beginning of World War I. It is THE book on its subject. . . . Turner's study has changed, changed utterly, the Victorian landscape."-Richard Tobias, Victorian Poetry

Author : Kyriakos N. Dēmētriou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409420514

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This collection of essays provides a revealing map of nineteenth-century classical scholarship, as it reconstructs an immensely important section of the Victorian Study of the Greek heritage - an arena of thoroughly engaged scholarship and writing.

Author : Kyriakos Demetriou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2019-06-10
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ISBN : 9781138382602

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This collection of essays focuses on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in the work of some major (pre)Victorian classical scholars and expands on a remarkable range of hotly debated issues on the interpretation of Greek antiquity. The central figure in this volume is the radical philosopher, utilitarian, and Platonist George Grote, whose works on the history of Greece and Plato moved away from traditional models of classical interpretation. His works and their background are critically explored in light of his philosophical commitment and political radicalism. Article IV brings to light a forgotten manuscript by Grote, "On the Character of Socrates," produced in the 1820s. Grote sought to counter the current literature on ancient Greece and its predominant motifs, which is here examined in its own right along with an independent study on Bishop Connop Thirlwall's influential History of Greece. The second half of this volume is devoted to analyzing important aspects of the revival of Platonic studies in the ideological and discursive context of early and middle Victorian times. This collection of essays presents comprehensive and illuminating contextual analyses of nineteenth-century works on classical reception, providing simultaneously a rich bibliographic guide to further research.

Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0415668514

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First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.

Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1136716173

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First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316738949

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Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race, character, literature, language, economics, empire, and law. The contributors show that the Victorians typically understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to their intellectual inquiries and their public culture. Although their historicist ideas drew on some Enlightenment themes, they drew at least as much on organic ideas and metaphors in ways that lent them a developmental character. This developmental historicism flourished alongside evolutionary motifs and romantic ideas of the self. The human sciences were approached through narratives, and often narratives of reason and progress. Life, individuals, society, government, and literature all unfolded gradually in accord with underlying principles, such as those of rationality, nationhood, and liberty. This book will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.

Author : Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108832946

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Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.