British Classics Outside England

Judith P. Hallett (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park. Other publications by Hallett include: Roman Sexualities (co-editor, 1997), Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1996), and Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family (1984).Christopher Stray (Ph.D. University of Wales) is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology, Swansea University. His publications on the history of classical education and scholarship include Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998) and The Living Word: W.H.D.Rouse and the Crisis of Classics in Edwardian England (1992).

• IntroductionJudith P. Hallett and Christopher StrayI British Classics beyond England: Scotland, Wales and the Empire1 The Democratic Intellect Preserved: Scotland and the Classics 1826-1836Mick Morris2 Classics and Welsh Cultural Identity in the Nineteenth CenturyCeri Davies3 Kathleen Freeman: An Apostle and Evangelist for Classical GreeceEleanor Irwin4 Greek, Latin and the Indian Civil ServicePhiroze VasuniaII The impact of British classics in the United States5 Politics and Scholarship: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and Nineteenth-Century British ClassicsWard Briggs6 Grace Harriet Macurdy: The Role of British Classics in the Self-Fashioning of an American Woman ScholarBarbara F. McManus7 J. A. K. Thomson and Classical Reception Studies: American Influences and 'Classical Influences'Barbara F. McManus8 The Anglicizing Way: Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) and the Twentieth-Century Transformation of Classics in the USAJudith P. HallettNotesBibliographyIndex

"British Classics Outside England contributes to a rich investigation of the intersecting histories of scholarship, politics, gender, and cultural identity." -- Lorna Hardwick, Director, Reception of Classical Texts Research Project, The Open University