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Language: en
Pages: 245
Pages: 245
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain's troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the virtuoso forger, the blundering general
Language: en
Pages: 245
Pages: 245
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Language: en
Pages: 377
Pages: 377
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, mercile