Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-363) and index.
Contents:
Radicalism and gradualism enmeshed: classics from the grass roots in the cultural politics of nineteenth-century Britain / Lorna Hardwick -- Coleridge's classicised politics: Heraclitus and the statesman's manual / Adam Roberts -- Swinish classics; or a conservative clash with cockney culture / Henry Stead -- The harmless impudence of a revolutionary: radical classics in 1850s London / Edmund Richardson -- Making it really new: Dickens versus the classics / Edith Hall -- Classics and social closure / Christopher Stray -- Hercules as a symbol of labour: a nineteenth-century class conflicted hero / Paula James -- Vulcan a "working-class" god? / Annie Ravenhill-Johnson -- Nature versus nurture: population decline and lessons from the ancient world / Sarah J. Butler -- The space of politics: classics, utopia, and the defence of order / Richard Alston -- Classically educated women in the early independent Labour Party / Edith Hall -- The Greeks of the WEA: realities and rhetorics in the first two decades / Barbara Goff -- Christopher Caudwell's Greek and Latin classics / Edith Hall -- Staging the Haitian revolution in London: Britain, the West Indies, and C.L.R. James's Toussaint Louverture / Justine McConnell -- Yesterday's men: labour's modernising lite from the 1960s to classical times / Michael Simpson.
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