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Classical Victorians : Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity

ISBN: 9781107026773 | 1107026776
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2013

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SummaryTable of Contents
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 wit... MORE
Introduction: the resurrection men
Old-fashioned ambition (a Victorian seduction)
In search of an empire of memory
The children of Babel
Appendices
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