Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley
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Overview: In this volume scholars of modern and ancient culture come together to explore historical, textual, material, and theoretical interactions between classics and imperialism during the heyday of the British Empire from the late eighteenth century through to its collapse in the early decades of the twentieth century. The contributors examine the multiple dialogues that developed between classics and colonialism in this period and argue that the two exerted a formative influence on each other at a number of important levels. Most at issue in the contexts where classics and empire converged was the critical question of ownership: to whom did the classical past belong? Did the modern communities of the Mediterranean have pre‐eminent ownership of the visual, literary, and intellectual culture of Greece and Rome? Or could the populations and intellectual centres of northern Europe stake a claim to this inheritance? And in what ways could non‐European communities and powers—Africa, India, America—commandeer the classical heritage for themselves? In exploring the relationship between classics and imperialism in this period, the volume examines trends that are of current importance both to the discipline of classics and to modern British cultural and intellectual history. Both classics and empire, it contests, can be better understood by examining them in tandem: the development of classical ideas, classical scholarship, and classical imagery in this period was often directly or indirectly influenced by empire and imperial authority, and the British Empire itself was informed, shaped, legitimized, and evaluated using classical models.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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