Classical Victorians

Name: Classical Victorians
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107026773
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Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity

Автор: Edmund Richardson

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Издател: Cambridge University Press

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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It...

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Автор

Edmund Richardson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2013

страници

242

EAN

9781107026773

ISBN

1107026776

Enbook ID

01211778

Издател

Cambridge University Press

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235 x 161 x 16

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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium – and the virtuoso forger who fooled the greatest scholars of the age. It is a history of hope: a general who longed to be an Homeric hero, a bankrupt poet who longed to start a revolution. Victorian classicism was defined by hope – but shaped by uncertainty. Packed with forgotten characters and texts, with the roar of the burlesque-stage and the mud of the battlefield, this book offers a rich insight into nineteenth-century culture and society. It explores just how difficult it is to stake a claim on the past.

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