British Classics Outside England : The Academy and Beyond

The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classicsathe study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languagesabeyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialized scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation. Not only did British classics permeate England; they brought English values to Scotland, Wales, and America as well. Far into the twentieth century, to learn classics athe Oxbridge waya was to cloak oneself in the mantle of a gentlemanaeven when the agentlemana was a woman.