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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, from an elite social marker to a marginalized academic subject. The challenges to the authority of classics in 19th-century England are analysed, as is the wide range of ideological responses by 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 is carried through to the abolition of Compulsory Latin in 1960 and the absence of classics from the National Curriculum in 1988.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Classics Transformed
• Subtitle: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960
• Author: Christopher Stray
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9780198150138
• ISBN: 019815013X
• ID: 04522127
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 562 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 142 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. March 1998

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