Format:
Online-Ressource (246 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107026773
Series Statement:
Classics after Antiquity
Content:
Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: the resurrection men; Chapter 2 Old-fashioned ambition (a Victorian seduction); The silver key; The bishop's palace; The hungry professor; The Stockwell murderer; A most respectable pursuit; Jude's credo; Chapter 3 In search of an empire of memory; Haunted ground; The use of the dead to the living; Becoming Greek; The volunteers; The return; Without a strain; The heroes of Troy; The revolutionary; Tilting at windmills; Coming home; Chapter 4 The children of Babel; The subject of this memoir
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The edges of scholarshipThe curious Mr Simonides; Are you laughing now?; The voice from the wilderness; The life of the scholar; The cultivation of chaos; The unbroken line; Forget-me-not; Appendix A Anglican bishops in office in 1800 and 1865; 1800: bishops born into the elite; 1865: bishops born into the elite; 1800: bishops who advanced through patronage; 1865: bishops who advanced through patronage; 1800: bishop who gained advancement from theological writings; 1865: bishops who gained advancement from theological writings; 1800: bishop who gained advancement from classical learning
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1865: bishops who gained advancement from classical learningAppendix B Students awarded Exhibitions at Balliol College, Oxford between 1870 and 1879; Social stability: Exhibitioners born into - and with careers within - the elite, or the higher professional classes; Downward mobility: Exhbitioner born into the elite or the higher professional classes, but with middle-class careers; Social stability: Exhibitioners born into less distinguished backgrounds, with middle-class careers; Upward mobility: Exhibitioners born into less distinguished backgrounds, with distinguished academic careers
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Upward mobility:Exhibitioners born to less distinguished backgrounds, with careers which took them into the elite, or the higher professional classesAppendix C Anglican archdeacons in office in 1840; 1840: archdeacons born into high-ranking church families: social stability; 1840: archdeacons born into the elite, or the higher professional classes: social stability; 1840: archdeacons who engineered themselves into the elite: Upward mobility; 1840: archdeacons who advanced through their theological writings: upward mobility
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1840: archdeacons who advanced through non-theological academic work: upward mobilityBibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139616386
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107026773
Additional Edition:
Print version Classical Victorians : Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
Language:
English
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