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Classical Victorians
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Edmund Richardson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain's troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the virtuoso forger, the blundering general
Classical Victorians
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Edmund Richardson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to de
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Richard Jenkyns
Categories: Great Britain
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Simon Goldhill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece a
Victorian Classical Burlesques
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Laura Monros-Gaspar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, mercile