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Britain’s Imperial Muse

Part of the Britain and the World Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137316424

ISBN: 978-1-349-32643-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 1 –16

[Pondering the University of Oxford, humourist Bill Bryson once wrote ‘… I’m not entirely clear what it’s for, now that Britain no longer needs colonial administrators who can quip in Latin.’1 The joke plays on the link between Britain’s elite educational institutions, with their prominent...
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Chapter 2Classical Education and Britain’s Imperial Elite

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 17 –36

[A.P. Thornton once described Kennedy’s Latin Primer, a standard public school text for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as ‘one of the winding sheets of empire’. This was hyperbole, meant to underscore his assertion that Britain’s elite educational institutions had lost their vitality...
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Chapter 3Classical Discourse: Imperial Dimensions

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 37 –53

[If there is abundant reason to believe that classical education engendered in Britain’s elites a sense of the importance and relevance of classical antiquity to contemporary life, there remains the matter of tracing how such general sentiments contributed to specific conceptions of empire during...
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Chapter 4Classical Discourse and British Imperial Identity: The Nature of Empire

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 54 –67

[Because classical discourse and imperial discourse overlapped to such an extent — being in many cases created and consumed by the same people — it will come as no surprise that close comparisons between classical antiquity and Britain’s imperial present were as common in the latter as the...
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Chapter 5Classical Discourse and British Imperial Identity: The Civilizing Mission

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 68 –88

[To find the earliest connections between the civilizing mission of empire as described in classical discourse and that claimed by the British in connection with their empire, we would again need to look far beyond the chronological parameters of this study. Nicholas Canny has shown how...
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Chapter 6Classical Discourse and British Imperial Identity: The Imperial Character

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 89 –107

[In 1877 Edward Dicey wrote ‘England, like Rome, is the corner-stone of an imperial fabric such as it has fallen to the lot of no other country to erect, or uphold when erected.’389 This is familiar territory, where the comparison to Rome establishes or confirms the special magnificence of...
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Chapter 7Classical Discourse and the Decline and Fall of Empires

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 108 –128

[Toward the end of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon confidently opined that ‘attention will be excited by an history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire; the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene, in the history of mankind.’450 This was not a hopeful...
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Chapter 8Classical Discourse and British Conceptions of India

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 129 –149

[Considering only the narratives of decline discussed in the preceding chapter, it would seem that classical discourse contributed to a rather negative image of Asia. Whether we take Gibbon’s link between ‘Oriental traffic’, the taste for luxury and moral decline, Cobden’s fear that Asia would...
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Chapter 9Classical Discourse in British India I: Coping with Life in India

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 150 –168

[Among the remarkable collection of Mountstuart Elphinstone’s papers in the British Library, there is a tiny traveller’s edition of the collected works of Virgil. It carries two inscriptions: ‘M. Elphinstone Benares’ and ‘This book was given me by my mother in 1794; it once belonged to my uncle,...
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Chapter 10Classical Discourse in British India II: Secret Knowledge

Hagerman, C. A.

Pages: 169 –186

[During the siege of Lucknow in 1857, Sir James Outram sent a message recounting the desperate plight of the outnumbered and encircled defenders to Sir Hope Grant, leader of the approaching relief column.717 The Indian courier hid the message in a quill, which he then secreted inside his walking...

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