Classical Victorians

Classical Victorians
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 245
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781107026773
ISBN-13 : 1107026776
Rating : 4/5 (776 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Classical Victorians by : Edmund Richardson

Download or read book Classical Victorians written by Edmund Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain's troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the virtuoso forger, the blundering general and the bitter prodigy - will engage scholars and general readers alike. This wide-ranging narrative breaks new ground in the fast-growing field of classical reception studies.


Classical Victorians Related Books

Classical Victorians
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Edmund Richardson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain's troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the virtuoso forger, the blundering general
Classical Victorians
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Edmund Richardson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

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 de
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Richard Jenkyns
Categories: Great Britain
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Simon Goldhill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece a
Dignity and Decadence
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Richard Jenkyns
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The starting point for Richard Jenkyns's latest work is his contention that the Victorian age, which we think of as the great age of Gothic, was so shot through