Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Radicalism and Gradualism Enmeshed
	Education, classical texts and working- class culture
	Autodidacts, mutual education and political consciousness
	Drama and burlesque: on the page and on the stage
	Trade union emblems
	Poetry
3 Coleridge’s Classicized Politics
4 Swinish Classics; or a Conservative Clash with Cockney Culture
5 The Harmless Impudence of a Revolutionary
	Vulgar declamation
	Harmless impudence
	FINALE. MEDEA AND THE CHARACTERS
	‘For alms we humbly sue’
6 Making it Really New
7 Classics and Social Closure
	Social closure
	Classics and/or sociology
	Class and classics in nineteenth- century England
	1832 and All Th at
	Closure in classics
	Conclusion
8 Hercules as a Symbol of Labour
	The Continental Hercules
	British cultural contexts
	Cultural locations: the Dockers’ Banner (Export Branch)
	Whose Hercules, which labour?
	The question of reception
	Aft erword
9 Vulcan – a ‘Working-class’ God?
10 Nature versus Nurture
	Causes of decline
	Rejuvenating the urban masses
11 The Space of Politics
	A consensus on cities
	Creating communities, constructing cities
	Conclusions: Classics, codes and class
12 Classically Educated Women in the Early Independent Labour Party
13 The Greeks of the WEA
	What was the WEA?
	Was there classics at the WEA?
	Where was the classics at the WEA?
	The rhetoric of classics at the WEA
	Why were the classicists at the WEA?
14 Christopher Caudwell’s Greek and Latin Classics
15 Staging the Haitian Revolution in London
16 Yesterday’s Men
	Classical backgrounds and hinterlands
	Political foregrounds and classical presences
Notes
Bibliography
Index