British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond

The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics–the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages–beyond 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
the Oxbridge way
was to cloak oneself in the mantle of a gentleman–even when the
gentleman
was a woman.