Oxford classics : teaching and learning, 1800-2000 /

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Imprint:	London : Duckworth, 2007.
Description:	x, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	University of Oxford -- History -- Congresses. University of Oxford. Classical education -- History -- Congresses. Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Classical philology -- Study and teaching -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses. Classical education. Classical philology -- Study and teaching. Intellectual life. Oxford (England) -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. England -- Oxford. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6635902

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Other authors / contributors:	Stray, Christopher.
ISBN:	9780715636459 (hbk.) 0715636456 (hbk.)
Notes:	Eleven chapters based on papers given at a conference on 'Classics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Oxford' held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 4 February 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.
Summary:	16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford classics in the last 200 years. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited. The book as a whole offers a wide-ranging survey of classics in Oxford.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Preface
1. Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge
2. 'A fleet of...inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920
3. Jude the Obscure; Oxford's classical outcasts
4. Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford
5. Walter Pater's teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism
6. Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879
7. Conington's 'Roman Homer'
8. Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford
9. 'Liddell and Scott': precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions
10. Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism
11. What you didn't read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts
12. Alfred Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth revisited
13. Eduard Fraenkel recalled
14. The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988
15. Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing circumstances
Bibliography
Index

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