Rediscovering Hellenism : the Hellenic inheritance and the English imagination / edited by G.W. Clarke ; with the assistance of J.C. Eade
1989, 1st edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #412886
ISBN: 0521354803
Physical description; xiii, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The question of authenticity in some early accounts of Greece / David Constantine -- 'High Pindaricks upon stilts' / Penelope Wilson -- The Arcadian vision / J. Mordaunt Crook -- Why the Greeks and not the Romans in Victorian Britain? / Frank M. Turner -- Hellenism in Victorian painting / Richard Jenkyns -- The fortunes of Sappho / Peter Tomory -- 'Hebrew' versus 'Hellene' as a principle of literary criticism / Stephen Prickett -- Education, ideology and the ruling class / James Bowen -- Cast-collecting in the nineteenth century / Peter Connor -- Socrates or chorus person? The problem of individuality in Nietzsche's Hellenism / Anthony Stephens. Subjects; To 1899. Hellenism. English literature Greek influences. Greek literature Appreciation Great Britain. Classicism Great Britain. Civilization Greek influences. Classicism - English literature Greek influences. Greek literature Appreciation. Philhellenism Great Britain. English literature Greek influences. Art, Hellenistic. Greek revival (Architecture) Great Britain. Painting, Victorian Greek influences. Classicism Great Britain History 18th century. Classicism Great Britain History 19th century. Arts, Modern 19th century Great Britain. Arts, British Themes, motives. Arts, Modern 19th century Great Britain. Arts, British Themes, motives. Classicism England History 18th century.
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