Main entry:

Jenkyns, Richard.

Title & Author:

The Victorians and ancient Greece / Richard Jenkyns.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.

Description:

xi, 386 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins of Hellenism -- The death of poetry -- Self-consciousness: Geography ; History -- The nineteenth-century background: The established order: Education ; Christianity and the Greeks ; Some Victorian attitudes: Rise and fall ; Discipleship ; Boswellism -- Tragedy -- George Eliot and the Greeks -- The consequences of sculpture -- The interpretation of Greece: The Greek language ; The Victorian vision of Greece ; The gods -- Homer and the Homeric ideal: Homer ; Athletics -- Plato: Pater's Plato and Platonism ; Plato's decline -- Change and decay: Turning points ; Sophocles and public order ; Education in the later nineteenth century ; The revolt against respectability ; Matters of morality ; Decadence -- Classical art in the later nineteenth century -- The empire and the war.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0674936868
9780674936867
0674936876
9780674936874

Subject:

Civilization.
Civilization Greek influences.
Great Britain Civilization 19th century.
Great Britain Civilization Greek influences.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation Influence grecque.
Great Britain.
Griechenland
Großbritannien
Geschichte 1837-1901

Holdings:

Location: Library main 33999
Call No.: ID:88-B5476
Status: Available